Southland Tales

11/14/20072h 24m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ Have a nice apocalypse. ~

Overview:

Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Director:

Richard Kelly

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$17,000,000.00

Revenue:

$374,743.00

Key words:

suicide
amnesia
husband wife relationship
middle east
sibling relationship
smuggling (contraband)
undercover agent
parent child relationship
prophecy
kidnapping
spy
nevada
mass murder
blackmail
allegory
time travel
afghanistan
surrealism
twin brother
film in film
end of the world
interracial relationship
conspiracy
terrorism
split personality
big corporation
doppelgänger
government corruption
southern california
alternate timeline
environmental issue
world war iii
mysterious past
absurdism
fourth dimension

Cast

Dwayne Johnson

~ as ~

Boxer Santaros / Jericho Cane

Seann William Scott

~ as ~

Roland Taverner / Ronald Taverner

Sarah Michelle Gellar

~ as ~

Krysta Kapowski / Krysta Now

Mandy Moore

~ as ~

Madeline Frost-Santaros

Justin Timberlake

~ as ~

Private Pilot Abilene

Miranda Richardson

~ as ~

Nana Mae Frost

Wallace Shawn

~ as ~

Baron Von Westphalen

Bai Ling

~ as ~

Serpentine

Nora Dunn

~ as ~

Cyndi Pinziki

John Larroquette

~ as ~

Vaughn Smallhouse

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Reviews (1)

JPV852
Written 4 year(s) ago
3
Saw this one many years ago and really didn't care much for it. Watching it again, now the 'Cannes Cut', I absolutely... hated it. A bit of a shame since I love Donnie Darko (the director's cut especially) and where that one managed to blend social commentary with end-of-the world science fiction pretty well, this one did not. In fact, it was a real mess. However the biggest issue, beyond being downright boring at times, where I liked the characters in Donnie Darko, here I really couldn't care less.

I would compare Richard Kelly to someone like M. Night Shyamalan, but least he had a couple solid films after The Sixth Sense to hang his hat on, Kelley's films following Donnie Darko (including his third film, The Box), were just nonsensical pretentious messes. 1.5/5