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Kalifornia (1993)

Brad Pitt , Juliette Lewis , Dominic Sena  |  R |  DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (107 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, Kathy Larson, David Milford, David Duchovny
  • Directors: Dominic Sena
  • Writers: Stephen Levy, Tim Metcalfe
  • Producers: Aristides McGarry, Gregory Goodman, Jim Kouf, Kristine J. Schwarz, Lynn Bigelow
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Unknown)
  • Subtitles: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: August 15, 2000
  • Run Time: 117 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (107 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 0792846435
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,292 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Kalifornia" on IMDb

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  • Contains both Unrated and R-rated versions of the film

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David Duchovny is a blocked author with a fascination for outlaw killers who hatches a plan to road trip through America's mass-murder landmarks to finish his book. He enlists his frustrated photographer girlfriend Michelle Forbes, who desperately wants to leave the East Coast for L.A., to illustrate the tome, and they advertise for riding partners. Luckily for them, they wind up with a veteran killer, the greasy trailer-park ex-con Brad Pitt, who decides to skip parole with his cowering child-woman girlfriend Juliette Lewis. Duchovny is enamored by gun-toting Pitt's recklessness and lawless disregard for, well, everything; he's simultaneously terrified and thrilled by Pitt's brutal beating of a barfly. Meanwhile, Pitt's leaving a trail of corpses in their wake.

Directed with a cool remove by Dominic Sena (Gone in 60 Seconds 2000), Kalifornia falls somewhere between Badlands and Natural Born Killers. Pitt brings a ferocious magnetism to his part, but it's still hard to buy genial Duchovny's odd attraction; Juliette Lewis conveys a terrifying sense of victimization with her poor dumb creature. Despite the film's best efforts, it never really plumbs the psyche of Pitt's simmering psycho--he's just plain bad, you know--but it does fashion an effective little thriller out of the tensions brewing in the restless quartet. --Sean Axmaker

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Excitement, adventure and unimaginable terror await on the road to Kalifornia. "Brad Pitt isoutstanding" (Rolling Stone) and "Juliette Lewis is utterly, heartbreakingly convincing" (Boxoffice) in this chilling psychological thriller co-starring David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes. When urban intellectuals Brian (Duchovny) and Carrie (Forbes) set out on a cross-country trip to research a book about serial killers, they share the ride with a couple they barely knowEarly Grace (Pitt) and his girlfriend, Adele (Lewis). Locked in a car hurtling westward, the four travelers struggle to find some common ground. But when they finally do connect, Early's violent nature abruptly emerges, and the terrified Brian and Carrie realize that they don't need to go very farto learn about ruthless killers...because they're already face to face with one!

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78 of 92 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars CHECK OUT KALIFORNIA KAPTIONS! April 1, 2000
Format:DVD
Not only is this a completely entertaining flick, but I just discovered a cool tidbit. Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes stop at several points on their crosscountry tour, and the movie provides little "captions" ala "X-Files" from time to time. Six minutes in, they arrive at BRADbury Textile Warehouse in PITTsburgh, Pennsylvania. Twenty-seven minutes in, they're at Novak Farm in FORBES, Tennessee. Then at one hour and six minutes they get to LEWISton Abattoir in Mt. JULIET, Texas. And my favorite, one hour 22 minutes in, they finally arrive at DAVIDson Mine in DEW COVE, NEvada. I know this isn't really a review, but it is so damn cool that I just had to share. Enjoy!
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars For Those Who Doubt Brad Pitt Can Act January 22, 2001
Format:DVD
If you come upon this movie after seeing Brad Pitt play one gorgeous leading man character after another and you think he wouldn't have had a chance in Hollywood without his looks, this movie will change your mind. In fact, I wonder whether his great looks have kept him from getting the deep, dark roles he is well capable of playing. Pitt plays a low-life, red-neck, serial killer who is presently living with Juliette Lewis in his hovel of a trailer. He includes the trailer park owner in his long list of victims and then pulls up stakes to leave for California. His way of getting there, with Lewis in tow, is to share travel expenses with two yuppies, a couple, driving there. At this point, the movie adds black comedy and satire to its orginal mix, which lifts it quite a bit above the standard serial killer plotline we've grown accustomed to seeing. David Duchovny is the male yuppie driver and he is a liberal writer who wants to write a book about serial killers. He even has stops along the journey at different crime scenes of various serial killers. The supreme irony is that he doesn't realize he has a serial killer in the back seat of his car while he pontificates endlessly about his book in progress. I know this actor is a big tv star now and one can see by watching this film why one actor became big in tv and the other big in film. Pitt simply eclipses everyone in the movie as far as acting talent with only Juliette Lewis coming close to him in total impact. If you are looking for the typical sexy Brad Pitt movie, this isn't it. If you are looking for Brad Pitt, the actor, this is the movie to see.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great update of Lupino's *The Hitch-Hiker* August 12, 2005
Format:DVD
In 1953 Ida Lupino directed a noirish black-and-white road thriller titled *The Hitch-Hiker*. If you want to know more about that movie go here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305636486/104-2636360-7886367?v=glance

Forty years later Dominic Sena directed the neo-noirish color road thriller *Kalifornia*. The bare-bones plot basics of the two movies are the same: a couple of folks driving through the desert on their way to California give a ride to a stranger who turns out to be a serial killer. But Sena and his crew build upon the simple though effective *Hitch-Hiker* plot to construct a complex, bleaker and more chilling vision of a carload of people on their way deeper and deeper into hell.

Usually David Duchovny's acting fails to move me. But in *Kalifornia* he's perfect as laid-back magazine writer Brian Kessler, wannabe author of a book on famous American serial killers. Kessler embraces a liberal, pop-psych, sympathetic view of the monsters in human form who murder again and again. Always ready to argue that serial killers can be understood if we lay aside our prejudices and try, Kessler aspires to be counted among the few rare intellectuals who really do understand them. I liked the line Earlie Grace says about how "Brian" becomes "brain" if the i and the a are switched. That sums up Kessler well--he floats through life like a brain-shaped balloon filled with helium. Earlie seizes Brian by his string--his ambition to become a famous author--and drags him into a liberal intellectual's worst nightmare.

Kessler's girlfriend, a mannish yet insecure art photographer in black leather named Carrie, is a stand-out role by Michelle Forbes. The relationship she and Duchovny play out is postmodern in a very believable way.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great overlooked film July 25, 2007
By Gogol
Format:DVD
Yeah I guess when people think of Brad Pitt they think of the pouting dope in films like Troy, mumbling his way through lines and generally acting like a complete prat. In this film though, he does a real good job.

Like in True Romance where he plays a drugged out bum he does a great job in playing a deranged hick killer. You always know when an actor has done a good job when you forget who he is and just watch the character he plays. Juliette sadly just plays the same role she plays in every other film she does. Nice but dumb hillbilly while the guy from the X files needs to stay there because he really is a bit of a plank in this film.

The basics of the film are, writer with an interest in serial killers decides to take his girlfriend across country searching out the places where some of the most brutal murders in American history took place, picks up smelly hillbilly and girlfriend for the ride (who just so happens is a serial killer) and well.......you can guess the rest.

Good film, worth a look.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Blu Ray Copy
This is not a review of the movie.
The quality of the blu ray is excellent. The picture was sharp and the colors were vibrant. The audio was very good. Read more
Published 26 days ago by William Galvin Jr.
5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite movie
I never get tired of this movie. I had not even seen it til a few years ago, but Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis are awesome together in any movie! Read more
Published 29 days ago by Erin Harris
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie!
Well acted. It was just that kind of strange movie with twists that I like. One of my favorites. I recommend it.
Published 1 month ago by Tod Shelburne
4.0 out of 5 stars Good psychological thriller
"Kalifornia" went unnoticed at the box office in 1993, but it's a quality psychological thriller starring David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes as a writer & photographer team who... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Wuchak
5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING
Brad Pitt is not a pretty boy in this he is psychotic killer and crazy as all H3ll....He gave a performance worthy of a oscar. Read more
Published 6 months ago by buffy84
5.0 out of 5 stars great movie
This flick in my opinion is Brad Pitt's best work. It is getting very hard to find in stores so happy i found a copy.
Published 6 months ago by Frederick F. Carment
5.0 out of 5 stars Kalifornia
This movie is Brad Pitt at his best. My husband and I have watched it over and over since we got it.
Published 7 months ago by Jimmy C. McCarter
5.0 out of 5 stars great movie
I had to watch this for one of my abnormal pyschology classes and I thought it did a fantastic job making you understand someone who has no conscious and is a complete sociopath. Read more
Published 9 months ago by ateal
4.0 out of 5 stars Kalifornia
This is one of Brad Pitt's early movies. Although it is not an amazing movie in itself, it is an absolutely amazing acting job by Pitt. He does not play the hero type like normal. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Social Pheoenix
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!!!
I have loved this movie for years and my husband had never seen it, we watched together the night we received it and really enjoyed it. Thank you

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