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King of California | |
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Directed by | Mike Cahill |
Written by | Mike Cahill |
Produced by | Michael London Alexander Payne Avi Lerner Randall Emmett |
Starring | Michael Douglas Evan Rachel Wood Willis Burks II |
Cinematography | Jim Whitaker |
Edited by | Glenn Garland |
Music by | David Robbins |
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Distributed by | First Look International |
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Running time | 96 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Spanish |
Budget | $10 million[2] |
Box office | $1.03 million[1] |
King of California is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Cahill, in his debut as a screenwriter and director.[3] It premiered January 24, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival[4] and opened in limited release in North America on September 14, 2007. It stars Michael Douglas as a mentally ill man who thinks he has discovered buried treasure, and Evan Rachel Wood as his weary daughter.
The roughly $10-million shoot was a brisk 32 days, including five nights after hours in a Costco.
It marks the debut effort of writer-director Mike Cahill.[dead link]
With an energy that both disarms and delights, Cahill transforms the stereotypical image of the California eccentric and the even-more-familiar tale of pursuing your dreams into a dramatically powerful and imaginative fable that explores both the difficulties of a father/daughter relationship and the excesses of people and societies run amok.