The Californians
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Movies/TV › Feature Film Drama
ISBN: 829567028025 / Publisher: Virgil Films, March 2006
A land developer and his environmentalist twin sister are at odds when they both fall in love with a beautiful young protest singer.
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Having brought a Herman Melville classic to the big screen with Bartleby, former musician Jonathan Parker fashions another literary retelling with his second directorial effort, The Californians. In this modern update of Henry James's The Bostonians, Gavin Ransom (Wylie) is an unscrupulous land developer bent on constructing lavish mansions along the pristine California coast. Gavin faces opposition from his environmentalist sister, Olive (Douglas) - a prickly situation made worse when they both fall in love with the same woman, an earnest protest singer named Zoe (Mara).
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