The Canyons Director S Cut

director paul schrader writer of raging bull and taxi driver and screenwriter bret easton ellis author of american psycho team up for the canyons a searing indictment of hollywood culture and the year s most controversial film young trust fund baby christian james deen is working on financing a horror film simply to keep his dad off his back his girlfriend turned plaything tara lindsay lohan is helping him with casting and his producer gina is trying to get her boyfriend ryan the lead role but unbeknownst to christian and gina ryan and tara were once a couple and as soon as the two meet again at an audition their romance is rekindled when christian discovers that tara has been having an affair he begins to play a series of cruelly escalating mind games with both ryan and tara leading to an act of violence from which there can be no redemption featuring fearless and unprecedented performances from its young cast the canyons is a thought provoking examination of privilege run amok