--- title: 'Palo Alto (2013)' type: 'film' director: 'Gia Coppola' released: '2013-01-01' runtime_minutes: 100 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/palo-alto-2013' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2479800/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Palo Alto (2013) 2013 · 100 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis Palo Alto is a 2013 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Gia Coppola, based on the 2010 short story collection by James Franco. The film stars Franco alongside Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, Zoe Levin, Chris Messina, Keegan Allen, and Val Kilmer, and features Margaret Qualley in her film debut. It concerns a group of disaffected teenagers in a California suburb dealing with lust, boredom, and self-destruction. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2013, and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on May 9, 2014, by Tribeca Film. ## Credits - **Director:** [Gia Coppola](https://cinepixo.com/people/gia-coppola) - **Screenplay:** [Gia Coppola](https://cinepixo.com/people/gia-coppola) - **Original Music Composer:** [Dev Hynes](https://cinepixo.com/people/dev-hynes) - **Director of Photography:** [Autumn Durald](https://cinepixo.com/people/autumn-durald) ## Cast - [Don Novello](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-novello) - [Keegan Allen](https://cinepixo.com/people/keegan-allen) - [Nat Wolff](https://cinepixo.com/people/nat-wolff) - [Chris Messina](https://cinepixo.com/people/chris-messina) - [Christian Madsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/christian-madsen) - [Francis Ford Coppola](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-ford-coppola) - [Janet Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/janet-jones) - [Zoe Levin](https://cinepixo.com/people/zoe-levin) - [Margaret Qualley](https://cinepixo.com/people/margaret-qualley) - [Colleen Camp](https://cinepixo.com/people/colleen-camp) - [James Franco](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-franco) - [Emma Roberts](https://cinepixo.com/people/emma-roberts) - [Val Kilmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/val-kilmer) - [Talia Shire](https://cinepixo.com/people/talia-shire) - [Olivia Crocicchia](https://cinepixo.com/people/olivia-crocicchia) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/palo-alto-2013 Film facts: Wikidata (Q14788814); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.