Movie
Palo Alto
Overview
A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.
Details
- Release date
- 2014-05-09
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Rabbit Bandini Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Emma Roberts as April
- Jack Kilmer as Teddy
- Nat Wolff as Fred
- James Franco as Mr. B
- Zoe Levin as Emily
- Val Kilmer as Stewart
- Keegan Allen as Skull
- Chris Messina as Mitch
- Margaret Qualley as Raquel
- Colleen Camp as Sally
- Olivia Crocicchia as Chrissy
- Christian Madsen as Anthony
Crew
- Gia Coppola - Director
- Gia Coppola - Writer
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