King of California
- Michael Douglas: Charlie
- Evan Rachel Wood: Miranda
- Allisyn Ashley Arm: Miranda ( as a child)
- Willis Burks II: Pepper
King of California is an American comedy film from the year 2007. Directed by Mike Cahill, who also wrote the screenplay.
Action
The responsible 16 year old Miranda has a hard time in their lives. Abandoned by her own mother, she breaks early from school to be able to keep up with a temporary job in a fast food restaurant afloat. In this situation, her mentally ill and penniless father Charlie is released after serving two -year stay in a mental institution, the addition is now Miranda's life with his verwunderlichen and apparently totally crazy ideas on the head. Charlie is obsessed to recover from the idea of a long -lost gold treasure of Spanish conquerors in the 17th century, which he believed somewhere in the vicinity of their dilapidated house. He bases his thesis on information from the diary of Padre Juan Flori Smart Torres, a Spanish missionary who was once with his expedition team on the run from angry locals pulled through Southern California and the treasure hidden in a cave.
Initially, the skeptical girl holds her father was mad, but little by little it can also pull from his treasure hunt in the spell. Together the two roam the area around the town of Santa Clarita in search of clues to find the whereabouts of the lost wealth. Miranda's research revealed that the treasure was probably hidden in a place, then at the a new church was built with a branch of the supermarket chain Costco Wholesale. To its costly research fund, Charlie sold without being asked Miranda's run-down car, which they had previously spared great sacrifices. It then comes to a fight, and Charlie eventually moves his bass to buy back their car.
The instigated by her father, Miranda applies for a job at the supermarket in question in order to be eligible for a nocturnal visit to the master key, which she manages well. The ongoing financial difficulties of her father make Miranda but still more to do. The two losing carelessly beside her entire furniture also her little house and be homeless. However, they plan unabated to recover the treasure. With the help of the aging Pepper, a childhood friend and fellow musicians Charlie, Miranda and Charlie break, late at night in the supermarket and pry the foundation of the concrete floor with the tools available there on. An underground river with high hydrogen sulfide content comes here to the fore in the Charlie jumps in a diving suit found in the supermarket, and presumably finds the expected doubloons treasure after a while.
As the night action does not remain undisturbed, he ties his desperate daughter to cover up a complicity Miranda, presents her but still a piece of paper with a bar code and says goodbye to his daughter. Once you see him a small but heavy box through the supermarket depressed, he jumps back into the underground river. The answer ultimately exactly what happens with Charlie, the film remains guilty. It is only the talk that he neither could nor be found his body. At the end of the film Miranda travels with her old car to the supermarket and buy a dishwasher, precisely the one whose number Charlie had previously still gives her. In tears, she opens her shopping at the beach and discovered something incredible in it, at least lets her expression to this conclusion. Happy travels Miranda in the last scene, a coastal road up.
Reviews
Walter Addiego wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle September 28, 2007, the film reminded him of those " from the beloved counterculture " films of the 1970s, would be lost in the rebels " in flames of moral victory ." The " poignant illustration of the loving father -daughter relationship " have addressed the critics. It was " nice " to see Michael Douglas outside the mainstream. Evan Rachel Wood fulfill the promise she had given to her previous films Thirteen and High School Confidential.
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on September 21, 2007, the plot is absurd. He praised Michael Douglas and Evan Rachel Wood, the " potentially non -playing characters " ( "potentially unplayable characters" ) would play well.
The lexicon of the International film proclaims: " Solid, but rather überraschungsarm staged father-daughter story that develops into a pretty film to be viewed with some bemühter feel good attitude. "
Background
The film was shot in Los Angeles and Santa Clarita ( California).
Premiere
The film had its world premiere on 24 January 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival. On 11 September 2007 he was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007. From the 14th September 2007, he was shown in selected cinemas in the USA, where he recorded about 248 thousand U.S. dollars to 21 October 2007. The German theatrical release followed on 15 November 2007.