Southland Tales (2006)
Directed by Richard Kelly

Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Film Synopsis

In California in 2008, a surprise nuclear attack pushes America into a war.  To deal with an escalating power shortage, a company develops a new kind of generator which offers a potentially unlimited supply of energy.  The device derives its power from the motion of the oceans, but as it does so it slowly alters the rotation of the Earth.  With the world poised on the brink of ecological disaster, the life of an amnesiac actor Boxer Santaros becomes entangled with those of Krysta Now, an adult film star, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach cop who is about to uncover a global conspiracy...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Richard Kelly
  • Script: Richard Kelly
  • Cinematographer: Steven B. Poster
  • Music: Moby
  • Cast: Carlos Amezcua (Himself), Curtis Armstrong (Dr. Soberin Exx), Robert Benz (Tab Taverner), Todd Berger (Bing Zinneman), Dave Carlin (News Reporter), Joe Campana (Brandt Huntington), Chris Andrew Ciulla (UPU 4 Officer 3), Rebekah Del Rio (Vanessa Vera Cruz), Aaron Dillar (Jimmy Hermosa), Nora Dunn (Cyndi Pinziki), Shari Dunn (USI Dent Reporter), Michele Durrett (Starla Von Luft), Jon Falcone (Soldier Falcon), Leila Feinstein (Herself), Jaret Gardiner (Shane Laverne), Janeane Garofalo (General Teena MacArthur), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Krysta Kapowski), Beth Grant (Dr. Inga Von Westphalen), Wood Harris (Dion Element), Shannon Lee Holmes (Todd Zinneman)
  • Country: Germany / USA / France
  • Language: English
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 160 min

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