California Dreaming

Apr 1, 1979

1h 32m

★ 4.4

A state somewhere between fantasy and reality.

Overview

Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Cinema 77

Taft Organization

American International Pictures

California Dreaming Trailers

Cast

T.T.

Dennis Christopher

Corky

Glynnis O'Connor

Duke Slusarski

Seymour Cassel

Fay

Dorothy Tristan

Rick

John Calvin

Jordy Banks

Todd Susman

Stephanie

Tanya Roberts

Corrine

Alice Playten

Earl Fescue

Ned Wynn

Mike

James Van Patten

Marsha

Stacey Nelkin

Tenner

Johnny Fain

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6.6

Alpha Dog

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0.0

The Bell Jar

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6.5

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6.0

Ken Park

Jan 30, 2003

Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

0.0

Mon Ange

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No overview available.

7.3

Dazed and Confused

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6.1

The Color of Milk

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7.2

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10.0

Limerence

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7.5

The Man Who Wasn't There

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A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

4.3

Falafel

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Everything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip though Beirut.

6.7

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7.2

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5.5

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5.3

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Sep 8, 2005

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6.1

The Door in the Floor

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0.0

Hot Wave

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A taiwanese romance set during the summer starring Brigitte Lin.

4.4

Summer City

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Four friends take a road trip to kick back, hit the pubs, and go surfing. Tension builds among the group between Sandy, a quiet young man who is angered by the obnoxious, womanizing Boo who seduces a teenaged girl while on their trip in one of his usual one night stands. Meanwhile, the girl's psychotic dad is also looking for Boo out of revenge for what he did to his daughter. Boo is in for a major wake up call.

7.0

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