King of California (2007)

Touches You

Absolutely the worst movie.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Blistering performances.

A surprising heartfelt performance between Evan Wood and Michael Douglas. A very mature poetic handle by writer/director Mike Cahill.I felt the actual search for treasure part was nice, but it was more a journey between the repair of father/daughter relationships. Wood plays a very understanding daughter who's father (Douglas) has just been released from a psych ward. Gently nudging him back to reality, she doesn't judge or act on his peculiar behavior. But knows, they are stuck together no matter what. I enjoyed the very quirky unfolding of the story. We do get the sense that this could be all one big put-on by someone who is clearly acting on impulse, but it pulls back just in the right time to charm you. I liked this movie and am surprised it didn't get as much attention as it should've. Excellent.

I've worked at blockbuster. I've worked a Hollywood video. I've seen thousands of movies.This breaks the top 100 all time for me.Apparently my review wasn't long enough.....hm.....The acting was great, the main character was zany, the chemistry and relationship of the two (evan rachel wood and michael douglass) was sensational throughout, and the movie just felt.....i don't know....unconventional. Something new, something fresh, something that I hadn't been seen done before - not like this. I wonder if Michael Douglass hit that......

Alright first off i don't fall for fairy tales or adventure or fantasy movies i barely dig super hero ones, but this movie has very little fantasy some fairy powder but lots of adventure and that was just the greatest mix ever!So talking a little bit about the characters, that by the way cast was good , small and great! Alright Evan wood passing by a 15 yr old!? ill really dig on that, she has a great skin, innocent look thou she was by the time married, or about to, to Marilyn Manson thou she is on her 20s by the time she made the movie she definitely filled the role of a overgrown mature teenage girl, that honestly there is lots of reality about kids that have to grow up at such young age while being so innocent still. Michael Douglas let me say that i liked this guy so much better than many other movies he goes just right with mad, crazy, obsessed roles.Now to the movie, well i cant tell u how many times i was thrilled on the movie, it had his ups and downs his sad and happy times, i think that that the writing was great fro the director not being out there, he directed as well which makes you get all that, that the director wants you to get! All that fantasy, all those indirect moments that you need to catch and think about after wards. The story, i seen this before, u know the lost treasure, the buried box, the dead man chest type of movie, but this one made get so close to the daughter that i don't even have! the whole lets go and dig for gold n California was just what i needed to wake up next morning and go look for 20 geocaches!! Anyways, the bad... well there was lots of times where Mexican music was played, so my thoughts were either the people in charge of the music don't know that mariachi has nothing to do with Spain or they just thou since its in California.. well the heck with it. The irony of the movie was over the top! but it was good it had a lot of happy moments that made up for it! uhm i read that the budget for this movie was 10million and i saw that the box office made a little bit over 1 million!! now thats a failure but honestly i think all it missed was advertising because i never saw any advertising about the movie around that time, besides your casual poster at the movie theater but, see lil miss sunshine or where the wild things are have a similar mojo to this movie and they did so much better and guess why?? because even though they had limited amount of audience, they had way more advertising than this.I hope we can see more stuff like this from mike cahill u did great job man!

Can totally confirm that last comment.. Didn't exspect that much before renting that DVD, but after all it was quite a nice surprise to see Michael Douglas' extraordinary performance and that of Evan rachel Wood, which is also one of the greatest performer nowadays. No clichés, no unnessesary over-the-top changes in storytelling, just a nice little film, calm and professionally narrated about father and daughter and the apparently mazy visions which turn out to be not just visionary. Everyone did a great job on this, and hopefully there'll be more brilliant moments in film history in the near future..