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Southland Tales

"This is the way the world ends."

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.

Top Cast

  • Dwayne Johnson

    Dwayne Johnson

    Boxer Santaros / Jericho Cane

  • Seann William Scott

    Seann William Scott

    Roland Taverner / Ronald Taverner

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar

    Sarah Michelle Gellar

    Krysta Kapowski / Krysta Now

  • Mandy Moore

    Mandy Moore

    Madeline Frost-Santaros

  • Justin Timberlake

    Justin Timberlake

    Private Pilot Abilene

  • Miranda Richardson

    Miranda Richardson

    Nana Mae Frost

  • Wallace Shawn

    Wallace Shawn

    Baron Von Westphalen

  • Bai Ling

    Bai Ling

    Serpentine

  • Nora Dunn

    Nora Dunn

    Cyndi Pinziki

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.

Rating

5.2 / 10
608 Reviews
2 Popular

1 Reviews

  • JPV852
    JPV852
    3 Mar 29, 2021

    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**

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