Southland Tales

  • Theatrical - Limited 2007-11-09
Box Office Gross: $374,743
Running Time: 145 minutes
Language: English
Production Company: Cherry Road Films, Darko Entertainment, MHF Zweite Academy Film, Inferno Distribution, Wild Bunch, Eden Roc Productions, Persistent Entertainment
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JoBlo's Rating

3/10

Synopsis

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... See more 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.

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WTF Happened to Southland Tales (2006)

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,...
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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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INT: Richard Kelly

I loved Richard Kelly’s DONNIE DARKO. It was a fascinating trip into the world of time travel and of course, scary bunny costumes. Yet SOUTHLAND TALES was a completely different experience. At times I thought it brilliant, and other times...
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Review: Southland Tales

PLOT: When former action star and current political pawn Boxer Santaros turns up after suffering from amnesia, he is taken in by a porn star and a gaggle of SNL not ready for prime time players. He is taken in...
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EXCL: Southland comic!

It’s been a long, bumpy road for Richard Kelly and his SOUTHLAND TALES. It premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival to abysmal reviews and many wondered whether it would ever be released. But Kelly would not give up and...
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UK Southland poster

SOUTHLAND TALES is an extremely important movie. Not in the sense that it’s going to define Richard Kelly’s career (it’s not, he’s going to be riding DONNIE DARKO for the rest of his life), nor does it have some powerful...
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New Southland poster

After a long reworking process, writer/director Richard Kelly is finally ready for us to see his second enigmatic opus SOUTHLAND TALES. Judging from the trailer, this looks exponentially more trippy than DONNIE DARKO but it does look fairly intriguing, if...
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Southland trailer!

Normally I wouldn’t be so excited to see a trailer of a film most critics destroyed (including our own JoBlo), but Richard Kelly has reportedly been very hard at work trying to fix the problems with SOUTHLAND TALES. After over...
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Southland Tales poster

After what can only be described as a Ross and Rachel-esque will-it-or-won’t-it be released in theatres back and forth, definitive proof that Richard Kelly’s SOUTHLAND TALES will hit theatres on November 9th, is finally here. The team over at Cinematical...
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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...
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Southland ready to go

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...
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CON: Southland Tales

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...