Slick, smug developer Gavin Ransom has a dream: make millions by blanketing the coastal hills of northern California with flamboyant, mini mansions. His sister Olive a raving ...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Noah Wyle | ... | Gavin Ransom | |
| Illeana Douglas | ... | Olive Ransom | |
| Kate Mara | ... | Zoe Tripp | |
| Cloris Leachman | ... | Eileen Boatwright | |
| Joanne Whalley | ... | Luna | |
| Keith Carradine | ... | Elton Tripp | |
| Valerie Perrine | ... | Lenora Tripp | |
| Jane Lynch | ... | Sybill Platt | |
| Michael Panes | ... | Marion Pardon | |
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Erika Luckett | ... | Mary Ann |
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Will Marchetti | ... | Mayor |
| Charles Martinet | ... | City Councilman | |
| Richard Gross | ... | Contractor | |
| Jarion Monroe | ... | Architect | |
| Elisabeth Nunziato | ... | Real Estate Broker | |
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Slick, smug developer Gavin Ransom has a dream: make millions by blanketing the coastal hills of northern California with flamboyant, mini mansions. His sister Olive a raving environmentalist, thinks otherwise, and aims to stop her brother's land gobbling plans. When Zoe Tripp a striking beautiful folk singer, joins Olive's cause, Gavin gets thrown for a loop, falling hard for the striking young woman with the golden voice. Caught between Olive's righteousness and Gavin's affection, the idealistic and innocent Zoe, coached by her parents and a maternal environmentalist must choose between a cause she's grown up supporting, or the affections of a man who stands for everything she believes is wrong. Written by Anonymous
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This is a film that fails greatness by a stretch, but is still better than most of the trite by-the-numbers crud churned out by Hollywood for the Spike TV crowd these days. "The Californians" features a few genuinely funny moments and some quietly competent acting by a fine cast. Just when you think you have it pegged as an "ecofreak" movie or a satire on hippy-dippy California culture or a send-up of greedy and insatiable developers, it makes a sharp turn into something else. I have a sneaking sympathy for films that violate expectations and refuse to be pinned down. No easy answers; no car chases; no Star Turns -- can you deal with it?