The Wrong Girls

Debut writer-director Dylan Meyer practically achieves liftoff with her absurdist stoner comedy “The Wrong Girls,” starring Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat. If Method Man and Red Man once posited “How High” with their 2001 comedy, Meyer counters with a pair of pals who achieve psychic powers through experimental psychedelics. And while Dave Chappelle was “Half Baked” in 1998, put a fork in Frankie (Stewart) and Molly (Shawkat), because they’re fully done. The burnout duo, who live in an LA apartment dubbed Casa de Chill Zone, put Cheech and Chong to shame with their reefer madness. In this crazy California yarn, Frankie and Molly have to come up with rent money by the next day, as in F. Gary Gray’s 1995 LA stoner classic “Friday” (as well as last year’s “One of Them Days”), a quest that sends them on an odyssey fit for “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.”-Variety “With her effervescent directorial debut, Meyer announces herself as a cinematic Caterpillar for the Alice in Wonderlands of our time. The great American stoner comedy isn’t dead. It just needed the wrong girls to save it.”-IndieWire