Southland Tales
During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
- Released
- 2006
- Country
- France, Germany, United States
Details
Release year: 2006
Storyline
During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Top credits
Dwayne Johnson — Boxer Santaros, Jericho Cane
Sarah Michelle Gellar — Krysta Kapowski, Krysta Now
Seann William Scott — Roland Taverner, Ronald Taverner
Carlos Amezcua — Self
Did you know
• Richard Kelly consciously sought out actors that he felt had been pigeonholed and wanted to showcase their "undiscovered talents."
• The first film for Dwayne Johnson to drop "The Rock" in his billing.
• In a 2011 interview, Justin Timberlake himself confessed, "To me, Southland Tales is performance art. I still don't know what that movie is about [laughs]."
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $275,380
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $117,000 (2007-11-18)
User reviews
big, messy, but enjoyable
Tales from Cannes
Tales that hardly fit in your mind!
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- DTS, SDDS, Dolby Digital
- Aspect ratio
- 2.20 : 1, 2.35 : 1
- Color
- Color
