Kalifornia
by Dominic Sena
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Actor: Brad Pitt, David Duchovny, David Milford, Juliette Lewis, Kathy LarsonDirector: Dominic Sena
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: Aristides McGarry
Producer: Gregory Goodman
Producer: Jim Kouf
Producer: Kristine J. Schwarz
Producer: Lynn Bigelow
Writer: Stephen Levy
Writer: Tim Metcalfe
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-08-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Kalifornia
Movie Review: "A Side To Brad Pitt Rarely Seen!"
Summary: 5 Stars
Brad Pitt's breakout role was in 1991's "Thelma and Louise", but it was in "Kalifornia" that he became a full-fledged movie star. "Kalifornia" stars Pitt as a psycho killer, who along with his girlfriend, played beautifully by Juliette Lewis, goes on a cross-country journey with a couple, played by David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes. The couple, Brian and Carrie, are going to California to start a new life, and while travelling there by car they decide to stop at different locales where murders had taken place years before. They decide to bring along another couple to help out with expenses. Little do they know what they were in for. Early and Adeele, the Pitt and Lewis characters, are pure white-trash neanderthalls, who are pitted against the more sophisticated couple of Brian and Carrie.
The film is a nightmare of horror and psychotic reign, as Pitt plays one of the most evil characters in recent movie history, who has no feelings for other human beings. He is about to bring the couple, who are driving him to California, on a muderous ride of hell and pure terror. While watching the film you wonder if Brian and Carrie will survive, and you have to get ticked at Brian, for he is so ignorant of the fact that Early is a madman, despite what his wife says. Can anyone be that naive?
The film is one of my favorites, as I first saw it on late-night TV in the mid '90's. The DVD comes in both widescreen and standard format and is beautifully restored. Both the unrated and R-Rated versions are included, along with a collectibile booklet, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and the trailer.
Rumor has it the reason the producers spelled California with a K is because they were worried they might get into trouble with the people and the state of California for associating their state with a film having such psychotic overtones.
Summary of Kalifornia
Excitement, adventure and unimaginable terror await on the road to Kalifornia. "Brad Pitt isoutstanding" (Rolling Stone) and "Juliette Lewis is utterly, heartbreakingly convincing" (Boxoffice) in this chilling psychological thriller co-starring David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes. When urban intellectuals Brian (Duchovny) and Carrie (Forbes) set out on a cross-country trip to research a book about serial killers, they share the ride with a couple they barely knowEarly Grace (Pitt) and his girlfriend, Adele (Lewis). Locked in a car hurtling westward, the four travelers struggle to find some common ground. But when they finally do connect, Early's violent nature abruptly emerges, and the terrified Brian and Carrie realize that they don't need to go very farto learn about ruthless killers...because they're already face to face with one!David Duchovny is a blocked author with a fascination for outlaw killers who hatches a plan to road trip through America's mass-murder landmarks to finish his book. He enlists his frustrated photographer girlfriend Michelle Forbes, who desperately wants to leave the East Coast for L.A., to illustrate the tome, and they advertise for riding partners. Luckily for them, they wind up with a veteran killer, the greasy trailer-park ex-con Brad Pitt, who decides to skip parole with his cowering child-woman girlfriend Juliette Lewis. Duchovny is enamored by gun-toting Pitt's recklessness and lawless disregard for, well, everything; he's simultaneously terrified and thrilled by Pitt's brutal beating of a barfly. Meanwhile, Pitt's leaving a trail of corpses in their wake.
Directed with a cool remove by Dominic Sena (Gone in 60 Seconds 2000), Kalifornia falls somewhere between Badlands and Natural Born Killers. Pitt brings a ferocious magnetism to his part, but it's still hard to buy genial Duchovny's odd attraction; Juliette Lewis conveys a terrifying sense of victimization with her poor dumb creature. Despite the film's best efforts, it never really plumbs the psyche of Pitt's simmering psycho--he's just plain bad, you know--but it does fashion an effective little thriller out of the tensions brewing in the restless quartet. --Sean Axmaker
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