included · Mechanical

Southland Tales

Richard Kelly · 145 minutes

Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Thriller, Comedy, Science Fiction

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Retain 6/10. Temporal duplication explains the central identity mystery and the doubles' meeting contributes to the apocalyptic resolution. It is consequential but shares the narrative with extensive political satire, conspiracy and ensemble subplots rather than continuous travel adventures.

An energy generator opens spacetime rifts; backward travel creates duplicates of Boxer and Taverner.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan37.6

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance6/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.6/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 77.14 base × 48.8% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, Justin Timberlake

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

10 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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