Kalifornia is an American thriller/road film, directed by Dominic Sena and starring Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, and Michelle Forbes. The film focuses on an aspiring writer and his photographer girlfriend who are traveling cross-country to research serial killers. To help pay for gas, they take along a man and his childlike girlfriend , unaware that the man is a killer. Brian Kessler is a graduate student in psychology and a journalist, who has written a book about serial killers. His photographer girlfriend Carrie Laughlin persuades him to move to California; and, when... his book project is accepted by a publisher, they decide to drive from Pittsburgh to California and visit infamous murder sites along the way. Short on funds, Brian posts a ride-share ad. Meanwhile, parolee Early Grayce has just lost his job. His parole officer learns of this and comes to the trailer park where Early lives with his young girlfriend Adele Corners . Early refuses the officer's offer of a job as a college janitor, saying he wants to leave the state.
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| Release date: | September 3, 1993 |
| Directed by: | Dominic Sena |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 117 Minutes |
| Producer: | Aristides McGarry, Sigurjón Sighvatsson, Steve Golin |
| Editor: | Martin Hunter |
| Music by: | Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography: | Bojan Bazelli |
| Screenplay by: | Tim Metcalfe |
| Estimated budget: | $9,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |