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Southland Tales
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.
2007 · Directed by Richard Kelly · 145 min · Science Fiction · Thriller · Comedy · 18 frames
Tagline
This is the way the world ends.
Crew
- Written by: Richard Kelly
- Cinematography: Steven Poster
- Edited by: Sam Bauer
- Music: Moby
- Production design: Alec Hammond, Ron Cobb
- Produced by: Bo Hyde, Matthew Rhodes, Sean McKittrick, Kendall Morgan
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
Production
- Country: Germany, United States of America, France
- Language: English
- Studios: Cherry Road Films, Darko Entertainment, MHF Zweite Academy Film, Inferno Distribution
- Budget: $17,000,000
- Box office: $374,743
- Themes: amnesia, prophecy, allegory, time travel, surrealism, twin brother, end of the world, conspiracy, big corporation, government corruption
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