SOUTHLAND TALES

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Director: Richard Kelly
Screenplay: Richard Kelly
Gellar's role; Krysta Kapowski/Krysta Now
With: Mandy Moore, Jon Lovitz, Justin Timberlake, Dwayne Johnson
US Release Date: 22 September 2007
Length: 145 minutes
Genre: Drama

An alternate reality is created by a time-shifted actor (Dwayne Johnson), and a time-shifted Iraq vet (Sean William Scott). Southland Tales is set in Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as the city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Gellar portrays Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality TV show. "Deep down inside everyone wishes they were a porn star," Krysta says. "We're a bisexual nation living in denial. all because of a bunch of nerds. A bunch of nerds who got off a boat in the 15th century and decided that sex was something to be ashamed of. All the Pilgrims did was ruin the American Indian orgy of freedom."

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Southland Tales
Krysta Now

A time rift is created in the desert and two people go through into the future, and then return, at which time one of them meets himself and the other meets his own corpse, since they come back a bit earlier than they left. The folks who sent them through in the first place arrange for the death of one of their earlier selves. This temporal paradox leads to revision of reality. The fellow who meets his own corpse is Boxer Santeros, a movie star who, at the time of his departure, was working on a bad science-fiction screenplay. The fellow who drove him through the rift is Roland Taverner, a corrupt cop and damaged Iraq vet. The new reality is altered by the minds of those creating the paradox. In the alternate reality, characters behave as Santeros and Taverner would have them behave in their post-traumatic, delusional sci-fi screenplay.

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CelebMafia, Gellar quoted Gella's commets to Maxim Magazine about the artwork on Krysta's porn video: "To make the cover look authentic, they put my face on someone else's body...They let me pick the body of the girl they put my head on, so I picked one with a curvy body and butt." The dvd cover was shown briefly in the film, and the back cover, with the full body image, was scarcely visible as the Senator's daughter waved it in the air as she spoke.

In Argentina, the film is titled "Las horas perdidas" (The Hours Lost). In Hungary, it is "A káosz birodalma" (In the Realm of Chaos). Italy calls it "Quindi finisce il mondo" (So the World Ends), and in Greece it is titled "Istories apo to telos tou kosmou" (Stories From the End of the world).

Gellar has a song in this film which was cut from the DVD version.

A collection of deleted scenes that "were in the version of Southland Tales that premiered at Cannes, and which may be helpful for understanding the movie" have been posted on YouTube.

The Southland Tales Soundtrack contains music by The Pixies, Bertha Tilman, Moby, Waylon Jennings, Elbow, Jane's Addiction, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and Roger Webb. Also Rebekah del Rio sings 'The Star Spangled Banner'.

SOUTHLAND TALES can be streamed on TUBI. It is also available on DVD and Blu-ray.

TRAILER

Southland Tales - video thumbnail

CAST

Dancers:
Sarah Christine Smith - Nicole Sciacca - Aliane Baquerot - Becca Sweitzer - Chi Johnson - Jenna Stewart - Rachael Markarian - Marcy McCusker

Southland Tales poster