Southland Tales

Theatrical - Limited 2007-11-09

Cast Sarah Gellar Seann William Scott Janeane Garofalo Ali Larter Jason Lee Tim Blake Nelson Amy Poehler Kevin Smith
Directed by Richard Kelly
Written by Richard Kelly

Genres: Comedy Musical

JoBlo's Rating

3/10

Synopsis

A musical/comedy set in 2008 where a three-day heatwave in Los Angeles culminates in a huge Fourth of July party.

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WTF Happened to Southland Tales (2006)

Posted 4 years ago

Richard Kelly’s SOUTHLAND TALES had one of the most disastrous film festival premieres on record. Going into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, everyone figured it would be a masterpiece, as the expectations set by the director’s previous film, DONNIE DARKO,...

Donnie Darko: Richard Kelly teases possible new film in that universe!

Posted 5 years ago

Like most film geeks who came of age in the mid-2000s, Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko was a huge influence on me. It was a great, mind-bending film that helped ease me into more surreal filmmakers like David Lynch and Alejandro...

Southland Tales: Richard Kelly hopes Dwayne Johnson returns for sequel

Posted 5 years ago

Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko was a huge success, but Kelly's sophomore outing Southland Tales wasn't quite so lucky. "As the city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental chaos," reads the official logline, "the fates of an eclectic...

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Southland Tales

Posted 18 years ago

Review Date: Director: Richard Kelly Writer: Richard Kelly Producers: Bo Hyde, Sean McKittrick, Kendall Morgan, Matthew Rhodes Actors: The Rock as Boxer Sarah Michelle Gellar as Krysta Seann William Scott as Roland Plot: This might be the hardest plot outline...

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CON: Richard Kelly!!

During this year’s Comic Con, Johnny Moreno was lucky enough to get a few minutes to sit down 1:1 with DONNIE DARKO director Richard Kelly and discuss the latest on his last project SOUTHLAND TALES, which screened in Cannes in...

Posted 19 years ago

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Southland ready to go

Posted 19 years ago

Last we heard of SOUTHLAND TALES, it was back in the editing room after the first cut of the film had an unfortunate run at Cannes earlier this year. Now, though, Sci-Fi Wire has shown the way to Richard Kelly’s...

CON: Southland Tales

Posted 20 years ago

SOUTHLAND TALES PANEL: Participants: Writer/director Richard Kelly Producer Sean McKittrick The Mechanicals Despite lacing into SOUTHLAND TALES when I saw it screened at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year (you can read my reivew HERE), I was still looking...

Review: Southland Tales

Posted 20 years ago

SOUTHLAND TALES Director: Richard Kelly Stars: The Rock, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott Release Date: TBA 2006 JoBlo reviews “Southland Tales”

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