California Solo is an American independent feature film written and directed by Marshall Lewy and starring Robert Carlyle.

Robert Carlyle plays Lachlan MacAldonich, a former Britpop rocker-turned-agricultural worker, who gets caught driving drunk and faces deportation after living in Los Angeles for 12 years.

Carlyle has remarked, "It was an easy sell to get me to do it"[1] and he drew inspiration for the character from his friends, the Gallagher brothers of Oasis.

[2] The film shot for 21 days in June 2011 in Leona Valley, Lancaster, Moorpark, and many neighborhoods of Los Angeles, including Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Atwater Village, Sun Valley, Downtown, Highland Park, Hollywood, and Culver City.

[5] Critics have praised Robert Carlyle's performance, calling it "open and utterly human",[6] "effortlessly engaging",[7] "soulful and layered",[8] and "stunning...perhaps his best since Trainspotting’s Begbie".