Kalifornia [VHS] | ![Kalifornia [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AQC7HEVFL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Dominic Sena
Actors: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes, Kathy Larson
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: Video
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Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 29770
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original Recording Reissued, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0792847423
UPC: 027616854308
EAN: 9780792847427
ASIN: B00004Y875
Theatrical Release Date: September 3, 1993
Release Date: November 7, 2000
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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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 Kalifornia June 17, 2009
Kay Lee (USA)
Brad Pitt is a real low-life with mental problems headed for Kalifornia any way he can get there. Juliette Lewis as his love interest is a not-so-bright good girl/bad girl. Timid David Milford and determined Kathy Larson are the middle of the road couple with the car. This strange mixture does not bode well for the trip from the git-go.
 "A Side To Brad Pitt Rarely Seen!" April 20, 2009
Terry Richard (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)
Brad Pitt's breakout role was in 1991's "Thelma and Louise", but it was in "Kalifornia" that he became a full-fledged movie star. "Kalifornia" stars Pitt as a psycho killer, who along with his girlfriend, played beautifully by Juliette Lewis, goes on a cross-country journey with a couple, played by David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes. The couple, Brian and Carrie, are going to California to start a new life, and while travelling there by car they decide to stop at different locales where murders had taken place years before. They decide to bring along another couple to help out with expenses. Little do they know what they were in for. Early and Adeele, the Pitt and Lewis characters, are pure white-trash neanderthalls, who are pitted against the more sophisticated couple of Brian and Carrie.
The film is a nightmare of horror and psychotic reign, as Pitt plays one of the most evil characters in recent movie history, who has no feelings for other human beings. He is about to bring the couple, who are driving him to California, on a muderous ride of hell and pure terror. While watching the film you wonder if Brian and Carrie will survive, and you have to get ticked at Brian, for he is so ignorant of the fact that Early is a madman, despite what his wife says. Can anyone be that naive?
The film is one of my favorites, as I first saw it on late-night TV in the mid '90's. The DVD comes in both widescreen and standard format and is beautifully restored. Both the unrated and R-Rated versions are included, along with a collectibile booklet, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and the trailer.
Rumor has it the reason the producers spelled California with a K is because they were worried they might get into trouble with the people and the state of California for associating their state with a film having such psychotic overtones.
Kalifornia March 11, 2009
Southern Belle (Omaha, NE USA)
WOW!! This movie brings to mind "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. It's gritty, realistic and terrifying. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen. Brad Pitt is excellent as the psychopath. Juliette Lewis is perfect as his girlfriend. David Duchovny, as usual, is gorgeous and awesome as the writer. Michelle Forbes, however, seemed stiff rather than terrified.
Maniacal Mystery Tour... March 7, 2009
Bindy Sue Fronkuenschtein (under the rubble)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Brad (David Duchovny from "The X-Files") and Carrie (Michelle Forbes from "Star Trek: TNG", "Battlestar Galactica", and "Homicide") are heading to California on a tour of infamous murder sites. Brad is using the trip as research for a book on serial-killers, and Carrie will take the pictures. They don't have enough money for the entire trip, so they post an add for anyone interested in such a venture. Enter Early Grace (Brad Pitt from Seven, 12 Monkeys, etc.) and his girlfriend, Adele (Juliette Lewis from Cape Fear, Natural Born Killers, and The 4th Floor), two young trailer-dwellers of the hillbilly variety. They gladly hop aboard and the four new friends are on their way. Of course, things aren't quite so simple, for unbeknownst to Brad and Carrie, Early is a genuine, heartless / ruthless serial-murderer himself! This definitely makes the long haul more interesting. Brad and Carrie slowly realize that they are in big trouble. When Early finally reveals his true calling, the action shifts into overdrive. KALIFORNIA is a wonderfully horrific thriller w/ murder, insanity, and a fair amount of black humour. Highly recommended...
2 stars out of 4 December 17, 2008
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
Ponderous and rather dull serial killer movie not worthy of a view when there are far better options out there.
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