Movie spotlight: 'High School'

The great curiosity of "High School," a comedy about stoners who drug their entire high school, is the presence of Adrien Brody in the cast. Brody, who won an Oscar for "The Pianist." Yup. That Adrien Brody, playing a smart, blitzed and paranoid drug grower-dealer aptly named Psycho Ed. Of course he's brilliant at it -- captured in full-lens close-up, eyes reddened and wide, with just a hint of twitch in one, signifying the manic paranoia he's developed in his years of growing, selling and using the primo pot he's famous for. "High School" has a lot of the same elements as your "classic" stoner comedies, but there's no heartfelt bond between the generic main characters, no emotional drive or urgency or pithy observations about life. "High School" only emphasizes the "high." But Brody's so good you almost forget to ask the obvious: "What was he THINKING?" (Rating: R.)

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