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The Californians (2005)

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A battle between real estate moguls and environmental activists takes an unexpected turn into affairs of the heart in this satiric update of Henry James' The Bostonians. Gavin Ransom (Noah Wyle) is a successful real estate developer who has made a tidy fortune putting up gated communities filled with expensive suburban homes all over California. Ransom intends to put up another such development in the as-yet-untouched hillsides of Northern California's Marin County, and, just as he's expected, a

PG, 1 hr. 27 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Mar 7, 2006

Hart Sharp Video

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So leaden and obvious it's too somnambulant to be funny.

October 21, 2005 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Largely due to a loose, inconsistent script by Parker and Catherine di Napoli, it plays like a formulaic TV movie.

October 21, 2005 Comment
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The film's edge gets softer as it goes - - in ways that might baffle all but the granola-scarfing well-heeled hippies it seemed to be parodying.

October 20, 2005 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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A very funny film ... skewers the sacred cow of environmentalism, a religion worshiped in LaLa Land.

October 18, 2005 Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | Comment
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Silly character relationships, a bland and unbelievable romance, no chemistry, added to a pouty, young idealist as the main character will give you a headache. If the plot doesn't get you, the bad music will.On the good side, there are some very pretty scenes of San Francisco.

April 26, 2006
KTaylor
Kelly Taylor

I found the film very irritating. Just the idea of a singing environmentalist falling for a housing deleloper is turn off. Illeana Douglas' character was the most irritating part of the film. The film is simply ridiculous.

March 4, 2006
jazza923
James Higgins

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