If you want to make your first film and need production money consider product placement or in this case – shooting your film in locations that Americans have made famous worldwide. The film which was featured at the Sundance film festival will also be shown at the Toronto film festival – a selection that so far has not been announced.
First Look Pictures first picked up King of California during the Sundance film fest – I had noticed character posters for Evan Rachel Wood and Michael Douglas and now the merger of the two central characters is complete with the latest one sheet. FLP releases the film on the 14th of September.
Michael Cahill’s directorial debut is about 16 –year-old Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood) who has already been abandoned by her mother, dropped out of school and has been supporting herself as an employee at McDonald’s while her father Charlie (Michael Douglas) resides in a mental institution. When Charlie is released and sent back to their home, the relatively peaceful existence Miranda’s built for herself becomes completely disrupted. Charlie has become obsessed with the notion that a long-lost Spanish treasure is buried underneath their local suburban California Costco. Initially skeptical, Miranda soon finds herself joining in Charlie’s questionable antics in an effort to give him one last shot at accomplishing his dreams in this darkly funny, exciting and surprisingly hopeful take on the modern family and the American dream.
