| South of Pico | |
| Director: | Ernst Gossner |
| Producer: | Eric Presley Richard Marcus Ernst Gossner |
| Starring: | Kip Pardue Henry Simmons Gina Torres Giovanni Lopes Jimmy Bennett Christina Hendricks Paul Hipp Ken Davitian |
| Music: | John Swihart |
| Cinematography: | Richard Marcus |
| Editing: | Jessica Kehrhahn |
| Runtime: | 84 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
South of Pico is a 2007 drama film written and directed by Ernst Gossner set in Los Angeles.
In present-day Los Angeles, a chauffeur, a waitress, a doctor and a young boy each deal with life’s daily challenges. They find themselves at the scene of an accident the moment it happens. This becomes a defining moment in their lives.
One story is a chauffeur named Robert Spencer that assigned to drive a bride Angela (Christina Hendricks) to a wedding. He eyes her in back seat through the rear view mirror while she is pulling up her garter belt. She demands to stop for cigarettes at a local retail store. When he returns she holds him and tells him to kiss her and they have sex at the back of the limousine.
The film premiered at the American Black Film Festival in October 2007.
South of Pico was shot in various locations around Los Angeles. The story is inspired by a fatal road rage incident in Chicago 2003; a similar case happened in 2007 in Austin, Texas.