Southland TalesOverview and Synopsis

  • Southland Tales
  • Opened November 14, 2007 | Runtime:2 hr. 24 min.
  • R
    language, violence, sexual material and some drug content
  • Set in Los Angeles in the year 2008 during a three day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with an adult film star developing her own reality television project and a Hermosa Beach Read More
  • Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Curtis Armstrong, Joe Campana
  • Director: Richard Kelly
  • Genres: Black Comedy, Comedy Drama, Thriller, Ensemble Film, Paranoid Thriller

Critic Reviews

  • "As the plot becomes more convoluted and the movie goes haywire, what saves it are its sardonic details. " Los Angeles Times

    - Carina Chocano

  • "...misses the mark with this bubbling stew of images and ideas that never quite congeals into a viable film." USA Today

    - Claudia Puig

  • "A pretentious, overreaching, fatally unfocused fantasy about American fascism, radical rebellion, nuclear terrorism and apocalypse..." Variety

    - Todd McCarthy

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