Michael Douglas gives a bravura performance in writer-director Mike Cahill's feature-length debut, KING OF CALIFORNIA. Douglas stars as Charlie, a troubled musician who has just been released from a mental hospital. He returns home to live with his 16-year-old daughter, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood), who is not exactly thrilled to .. Read more
| Starring | Evan Rachel Wood, Michael Douglas, Michael Doulgas, Willis Burks Ii |
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| Director | Mike Cahill |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Michael Douglas gives a bravura performance in writer-director Mike Cahill's feature-length debut, KING OF CALIFORNIA. Douglas stars as Charlie, a troubled musician who has just been released from a mental hospital. He returns home to live with his 16-year-old daughter, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood), who is not exactly thrilled to have him back. Miranda has been forced to quit school and get a job in order to support herself and hold on to her beat-up old car and the family house, which is right in the middle of a new development--but she has refused to sell out. Instead, she works extra shifts at McDonald's and has no social life. But her father--still suffering from mental illness--insists that she join him on a wild adventure in search of supposedly long-buried treasure, and soon the two of them are combing through California, facing danger as Charlie leads them on a crazy quest that takes them through major chain stores and restaurants. Wood (THIRTEEN) is excellent as Miranda, walking that fine line between wanting to believe in her father and feeling he should be hospitalized again--but she never stops loving him, even against her better judgment. Bushy-haired and wild-eyed, Douglas shines every second he's onscreen, dreaming the impossible dream. The outstanding soundtrack features songs by John Coltrane, Seals and Crofts, Bud Powell, Fats Waller, Yma Sumac, and Billy Bragg and Wilco.
| Starring | Evan Rachel Wood, Michael Douglas, Michael Doulgas, Willis Burks Ii |
|---|---|
| Director | Mike Cahill |
| Studio | REVOLVER ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 29 mins Watch now: 1 hr 33 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: |
| Collections | New releases |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English Watch Online: English |
| Released | DVD: 02 Jun 2008 Watch now: 13 May 2009 Production year: 2007 |
| Watch now | Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. |
| Format | DVD |
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A film with an excellent feel-good-factor around it... The leads are pretty much out of character, but the parts they play are both lovable and homely. (for want of a better word) You simply just want Douglas' loony-toons character to find the buried treasure at the end of the rainbow, if nothing else but to prove all the sane people wrong... lol... The film was down to earth, with some F words which surely cannot offend, due to various scenarios, and there's the odd good laugh in there to boot as well... Worth watching.