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The King of California

Pidge
16 years ago

After the intense experience of seeing In the Valley of Elah last week, this lighter fare seemed like just the ticket. Except when I thought "light" I didn't mean "empty." The film stars Michael Douglas as Charlie, a bi-polar dad newly released from the mental institution in which he has been for two years. He returns to find his 16-year-old daughter managing her life on her own. The film drags for at least a half-hour as the daughter drones on and on, filling us in on Charlie's back story, his search for a California past buried under Costco stores, McDonald's (where the daughter works) and Applebee restaurants, and Coca-Cola ads. By the time the movie got going I was ready to leave, and though it got better and livelier and had a nice little story embedded in it, overall it was not the film the trailers had suggested it would be. Don't bother.

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