The Heineken Green Room hosted Michael Douglas and Evan Rachel Wood, as they gathered with producers Alexander Payne and Michael London and director, Michael Cahill to celebrate the screening of their film King of California. Using a modern southern California community as a backdrop, King of California follows Miranda (Wood), a teenage girl dealing with the return of her mentally anguished father (Michael Douglas) from a mental institution. Her father's mad escapades lead her on a hunt for a Spanish missionary treasure.

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King of California is a cinematic voyage through the landscape of a contemporary southern California community shaped by one unconventional man's quest. Writer/director Mike Cahill's debut feature, squired by producers Alexander Payne and Michael London, among others, recounts the story of a teenage girl, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood), and her mentally dysfunctional father, Charlie (Michael Douglas), a man who has spent his life pursuing his passions and has just returned home after a two-year hiatus in a mental institution. Miranda, struggling to stay afloat in her rapidly enlarging community, is swept up, albeit reluctantly, in her dad's latest madness, a search for gold left behind by Spanish missionaries.

With an energy that both disarms and delights, Cahill transforms the stereotypical image of the California eccentric and the even-more-familiar tale of pursuing your dreams into a dramatically powerful and imaginative fable that explores both the difficulties of a father/daughter relationship and the excesses of people and societies run amok.

Directed with a restraint and sensibility that belie Cahill's inexperience and displaying a classical sense of craftsmanship throughout its many twists and turns, King of California is a flight into a realm of inspiration and delusion that offers viewers an engaging and uplifting respite from the burdens of life.

Screenwriter : Mike Cahill
Executive Producers : Boaz Davidson, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, John Thompson, George Furla, Elisa Salinas
Producers : Alexander Payne, Michael London, Avi Lerner, Randall Emmett
Composer : David Robbins
Cast : Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Willis Burks II, Laura Kachergus

Mike Cahill
King of California marks Mike Cahill's debut as a screenwriter and director. Cahill's first novel, "A Nixon Man", was the winner of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Award for best new novel.