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Director
  
Steve Hanft

Initial DVD release
  
March 31, 2004 (Japan)

Country
  
United States

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Music, Comedy

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Southlander movie poster
Release date
  
April 21, 2001 (2001-04-21)

Writer
  
Steve Hanft, Rossie Harris, Bob Stephenson

Music director
  
Elliott Smith, Royal Trux, The Coup, DJ Me DJ You

Cast
  
Beck
(Bek),
Laura Prepon
(Seven Equals Five),
Elliott Smith
(Bus Driver),
Rory Cochrane
(Chance),
Beth Orton
(Rocket)

Similar movies
  
Rory Cochrane appears in Southlander and Sunset Strip, Little Secrets (2001), Undiscovered (2005), Slaves to the Underground (1997), Blast-Off Girls (1967)

A Los Angeles keyboardist (Rory Cochrane) meets eccentric characters while searching for his stolen synthesizer.

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Southlander movie scenes Sarah Michelle Gellar in Richard Kelly s Southland Tales

Southlander is a 2001 American independent film by Steve Hanft and Ross Harris. Originally titled Recycler after the Los Angeles magazine of the same name, the film writers changed the name of the movie—and a central plot device—to Southlander to avoid trademark issues.

Southlander is an American independent film by Steve Hanft and Ross Harris.

Plot

Down-and-out keyboardist Chance (Rory Cochrane) sees redemption in touring with dub-pop band Future Pigeon, fronted by the lovely Rocket (Beth Orton). But to make the band, he needs a signature sound—which he finds in the futuristic 69 "Molotron" keyboard. Chances dreams are put on hold on the eve of the tour, when the Molotron is swiped from his car. Southlander follows Chance and his friend Ross Angeles (Ross Harris) as they track down the stolen keyboard through the pages of the Southlander, a local rag that publishes classified ads for musical equipment. The journey quickly turns into a surreal trip through LAs underground music scene.

Cast

  • Rory Cochrane
  • Ross Harris
  • Lawrence Hilton Jacobs
  • Beth Orton
  • Beck
  • Hank Williams III
  • Jennifer Herrema
  • Gregg Henry
  • Richard Edson
  • Ione Skye
  • Mark Gonzales
  • Laura Prepon as Seven=Five

    • Singer/songwriter Elliott Smith plays the role of the bus driver in the film. He also wrote two exclusive songs for the film.

    Soundtrack

  • "Southlander Theme"
  • "Illumination Dub" - Beth Orton, Eddie Ruscha
  • "Dr. Fantasm" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Making Out" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Green Room" - Billy Higgins, J. Littleton, K. Gamble, Azar Lawrence, & Richard Grant
  • "Speedway Child" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Taste It" - Eddie Ruscha, Ross Harris
  • "End of the Century" - Jennifer Herrema, Neil Hagerty
  • "Space Kat" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Video City Boy" - C. Borrell, Ross Harris
  • "A Life Story" - Union 13
  • "Rust Drive" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Elemental Blues" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Motherchild Theme" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Zu Zu Dubrider" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Piano Drop" - Ross Harris
  • "Puttin It Down" - Beck Hansen
  • "Seven Equals Five" - A. Spiegelman, B. Reynolds, Bill Dusha
  • "Spa" - C. Borrell, Ross Harris
  • "Lanes World" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Solar Invocation" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Gently Waves" - Takako Minekawa
  • "Broken Train" - Beck Hansen
  • "Confederate Dub" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Alone and Dying" - Hank Williams III
  • "Sweetest Decline" - Beth Orton
  • "Fatter Cats Bigga Fish" - The Coup
  • "Snowbunnys Serenade" - Elliott Smith
  • "Motherchild Chase" - Eddie Ruscha
  • "Splitsville" - Elliott Smith

    • Notes:

  • Ed Ruscha, Jr. is credited as Da Da Munchamonkey in the film.
  • "Sweetest Decline" is erroneously listed as "Central Reservation" in the DVD liner notes.
  • "Snowbunnys Serenade" is an alternate version of Elliott Smiths song "Bye" (from Figure 8), played on a different keyboard.

    • References

    Southlander Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Southlander IMDb Southlander themoviedb.org