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Watch: King of California 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – A fresh-out-of-the-mental institution father and his emancipated teenage daughter venture together on a quest for an ancient Spanish treasure buried beneath their local Costco in this take on the modern family and the American dream..
Plot: Charlie gets released from an insane asylum and moves in with Miranda, the young daughter he left behind. Charlie believes that there is treasure hidden beneath the local Costco, so he puts together a plan to unearth the loot. By convincing Miranda to quit her job at McDonald’s and instead work at the wholesale store, he is able to obtain a key. Although Miranda is skeptical, she helps her father with his irrational quest.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 23,104
	63% | RottenTomatoes
	63/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 289 Popularity: 8.278 | TMDB

Reviews:

How to approach “King of California”….
This is a film about the relationship between a father and his daughter. The daughter is extremely responsible, and more mature than dad. Dad is an irresponsible dreamer, and the role reversal is intriguing. Michael Douglas and Evan Rachel Wood nicely compliment a very clever script. If you are the type of viewer who demands complete logic in everything that happens on the screen, you will not enjoy “King of California”, because the story requires you to suspend disbelief. If you enjoy a treasure hunt, even one that is chasing smoke, then by all means see this film. It has a nice message,”you’ve got to believe in treasure to find it” – MERK

Another one of the bunch or not?
There are far more “Little Miss Sunshines” or “Sideways” than we might think. Good movies like the two mentioned titles, I think, because of time and place (and other factors, of course; but it depends on the year) end up occupying a privileged position they might not completely deserve. I men, they do deserve it; it’s just that there are many movies that could share the same luck. I think Mike Cahill’s “King of California”, (not) coincidentally produced by Alexander Payne, is one of those films.

Not planning to blow our minds in any way, with a true love for cinema and his characters, writer/director Cahill delivers an intimate, delicate and complex story in his directorial debut, set in the sunny sceneries of Los Angeles, California. After we’ve experienced a rich use of music, filled with amiable guitars and acoustic songs that reflect the piece’s mood, it’s not until the very end that Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood) makes clear that we are, indeed, in California; but we have the film’s title in our head and, even so, it doesn’t seem to matter where the events take place. Miranda becomes responsible for the narration, as we go with her to a mental institution. His father is leaving the place and moving back in with her. She calls him Charlie (Michael Douglas). Charlie believes there’s a treasure hidden somewhere; he wants to look for it and his daughter, not without reason, accepts he’s totally mad.

What’s important, though, it’s that the environment is sunny. We all know by now, as viewers, that independent American cinema deals very much with dysfunctional families and beings. Therefore, we don’t need it to get darker than the first impression we have because it will always be more interesting and original to see something falling apart in the light of day than amongst a disturbing and (maybe) forced obscurity. Jonathan and Valerie Faris knew this very well, Alexander Payne is a master in the subject and Mike Cahill also seems to understand how the ‘device’ (if you want to give a name to it) works.

That said, it’s also fair to admit that it’s not always that a father-teenage daughter relationship is the core and reason to be of a movie. It’s typical to expect that kind of development as a subplot, and most of the time it’s very superficial. In “King of California”, Miranda and her father are the only existing players. Of course, there’s the obligatory contact with the outer world, but the fact that Charlie is insane and his daughter ends up following him anywhere makes one believe they might live in a parallel universe…That is, until from time to time a cop or security guard warns them because of the wild activities they’re performing (this is something you have to watch).

Michael Douglas is one of the best, or the few veteran actors -Alec Baldwin comes to mind- at doing something quite complex to achieve and difficult to explain: laughing of themselves. Douglas came up with this during this decade, partly, I believe, because it builds credibility, to an extent. It’s easy to perceive: it involves laughing all the time; and in a movie like this one it’s delightful to see Douglas having the time of his life. And Evan Rachel Wood is always a good companion, as a daughter mostly, bringing out the best in his pairs (Holly Hunter in “Thirteen”, Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler”, Joan Allen in “The Upside of Anger”) and illuminating every scene she’s in.

It’s a very difficult theme to manage, this kind of relationship as the center of a picture. There’s the risk of too many scenes with tears and references to the past that might be unnecessary in the first place and indicative secondly. Pay attention to the flashbacks in “King of California” to seek for a precise and effective creation of emotion through the resource. I compliment Cahill and expect more from him next time.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min), 1 hr 36 min (96 min) (Toronto International) (Canada)
Budget 10000000
Revenue 1045786
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director M. Cahill
Writer M. Cahill
Actors Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Willis Burks II
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Boyana Film Laboratory, Sofia, Bulgaria, DeLuxe, USA, Hollywood Intermediate, Burbank (CA), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length 2,592 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm