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Synopsis

From writer / director of DONNIE DARKO, Richard Kelly. Los Angeles, 2008: The city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Southland Tales is an epic story set over the course of threedays that culminate in a massive 4th of July celebration. A large ensemble cast of characters includes Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), an action star stricken with amnesia, Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott), a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Film Information

• Genre: Comedy / Drama / Sci-fi
• Director: Richard Kelly
• Written By: Richard Kelly
• Starring: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, Justin Timberlake, Bai Ling, Cheri Oteri, and Miranda Richardson
• Running Time: 144 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R for language, violence, sexual material and some drug content
• Language: English
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Reviews

"Funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired look at America and its discontents."

   - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"Delivers equal parts overwrought tedium and mind-bending beauty, spiked with brilliant throwaway images that more than make up for Kelly's heavy-handed hot-button pretensions."

   - Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide

"If it arrives in final form as (still) a total mess, it's such a passionate and ambitious mess -- overcrowded with extraordinary images, incomprehensible ideas, literary and pop-cultural references and colliding subplots -- that it transcends its adolescent awkwardness and approaches being magnificent."

   - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

"In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, Southland Tales is really something else. Kelly's movie may not be entirely coherent, but that's because there's so much it wants to say."

   - J. Hoberman, Village Voice

"Southland Tales has a mood unlike anything I've seen: dread that morphs into kitsch and then back again. It's a film that tried my patience, and one I couldn't shake off."

   - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

Showtimes

• Wednesday, January 23rd
  9:30 pm
• Thursday, January 24th
  9:30 pm
• Friday, January 25th
  9:30 pm
• Saturday, January 26th
  9:30 pm
• Sunday, January 27th
  7:00 pm
• Monday, January 28th
  9:30 pm
• Tuesday, January 29th
  9:30 pm