Southland tales
(DVD R-rated) 

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006.

Special features : "Usident TV: surveiling the Southland" featurette ; "This is the way the world ends" animated short.

Director of photography, Steven B. Poster ; editor, Sam Bauer ; music, Moby ; costume designer, April Ferry ; production designer, Alec Hammond.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, Justin Timberlake, Nora Dunn, John Larroquette, Bai Ling, Jon Lovitz, Holmes Osborne, Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler, Lou Taylor Pucci, Miranda Richardson, Wallace Shawn, Kevin Smith.

In 2008, the United States is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films. He is currently trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now is a porn star who has reinvented herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. Roland Taverner is an L.A. police officer who hold the key to a vast conspiracy.

MPAA rating: R; for language, violence, sexual material and some drug content.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

English dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.