King of California Critic Reviews

It's as if the star (Douglas) finally gets to integrate all his onscreen personas, all at once.Read the full review

When you stand back a step from the movie, you admire Douglas and Wood for starting with potentially unplayable characters, and playing them so well we actually care about a quest that, in a way, seems more designed for Abbott and Costello.Read the full review

With Douglas, the film's shambling charms slowly catch hold, thanks mainly to his personal magnetism.Read the full review

In updating Shakespeare’s "The Tempest," writer-director Mike Cahill focuses on the magic worth finding between a father and daughter. That’s why the film sticks with you. It’s a gift.Read the full review

Mike Cahill's King of California reminds me of those '70s-era pictures beloved of the counterculture about appealing rebels who go down in flames of moral victory.Read the full review

Douglas is a manic joy, and Wood manages to hang on for the ride.Read the full review

The strange, funny and sad story of a bipolar jazz musician and his long-suffering teenage daughter, reunited after his two-year stay in a mental institution.Read the full review

A flaky, tedious, intermittently likable fable about being crazy in a crazy world.Read the full review

The movie develops in two pieces - one dealing with the quest for the hidden riches and once concentrating on the relationship between father and daughter. The latter works; the former doesn't.Read the full review