The Canyons

Release Date: Friday, August 2, 2013

Lindsay Lohan, Gus Van Sant, Paul Schrader, Nolan Gerald Funk, James Deen, Braxton Pope, Bret Easton Ellis, Lauren Schacher, Amanda Brooks, Tenille Houston

Documents five twenty-somethings' quest for power, love, sex and success in 2012 Hollywood.

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Documents five twenty-somethings' quest for power, love, sex and success in 2012 Hollywood.

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Christian is a young LA trust-fund dude with casual rich-kid ties to moviemaking--he's financing a horror film simply to keep his dad off his back about doing something with his life. Christian has been dating Tara for about a year--she was an aspiring actress/model who settled down with Christian when the reality of the business became apparent to her. She's now just Christian's bored plaything. Christian's assistant Gina is producing the film for him and casting it with assistance from Tara. Gina is pushing Ryan, her boyfriend and struggling actor, for the lead in the horror movie Christian is producing. Unbeknownst to either Christian or Gina: Ryan and Tara were a couple three years ago. When Ryan came back into Tara's life during the auditions for the movie, they reignited their affair. But Christian, a dangerous control-freak, finds out about the affair and starts playing cruel mind games with both Tara and Ryan, which escalate into an act of bloody violence.
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The film's director Paul Schrader last directed The Master Gardener and The Card Counter. The film's writer Bret Easton Ellis last wrote The Curse of Downers Grove and The Frog King.

Screenwriter
Producer
Braxton Pope
Production Company
Sodium Fox

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MPA Rating
R Restricted for content including graphic nudity, language throughout, a bloody crime scene and brief drug use
Runtime
N/A
Tagline
It's not The Hills...
Also known as
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Language
English

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  • Funded by a campaign on kickstarter.com.

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Release Dates

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The Canyons was released in on Friday, August 2, 2013 . There were 8 other movies released on the same date, including 2 Guns, The Spectacular Now and Cockneys vs Zombies.



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  • Set the MPAA rating to R for content including graphic nudity, language throughout, a bloody crime scene and brief drug use

Sun., Sep. 8, 2013

  • Changed the U.S. film release date from June, 2013 to August 2, 2013

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