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Welcome to L.A.
The City of the One Night Stands.
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.
- Original title
- Welcome to L.A.
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
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CinemaSerf
Jun 22, 2025 · via TMDB
The wealthy “Carl” (Denver Pyle) is reluctantly estranged from his musician son “Carroll” (Keith Carradine) who is, himself, a rather introspective womaniser who has no interest in committing to any of the women who have touched his life as he philanders around Los Angeles. Quite what any of these women could ever see in this man is beyond me, but he seems to have them hooked and that’s the excuse auteur Alan Rudolph uses to take us on a trip through his dirty linen, and boy is it absurd. Peppered by full-scale and over-produced ballads - complete with on-screen orchestra, we follow a series of uninteresting peccadilloes that bamboozle all the more because the likes of Harvey Keitel - his dad’s factotum; Geraldine Chaplin, Lauren Hutton and Sissy Spacek have given this house-room. The latter of these household names stands out, I suppose, but she and her feather duster aren’t really here anywhere near enough to give this meandering exercise in familial discord and self-indulgence any real sense of purpose. Bed-hopping can be a fun basis for a film if it’s a comedy or if there is some depth to the story and/or the characterisations, but here it is if we are being presented with some amateur revolving-stage histrionics designed to alienate and disinterest us rather than engage. Who cares what happens to any of them? I didn’t, sorry.
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Keith Carradine
Carroll Barber
Sally Kellerman
Ann Goode
Geraldine Chaplin
Karen Hood
Harvey Keitel
Ken Hood
Lauren Hutton
Nona Bruce
Viveca Lindfors
Susan Moore
Sissy Spacek
Linda Murray
Denver Pyle
Carl Barber
John Considine
Jack Goode
Allan F. Nicholls
David Howard
Diahnne Abbott
Jeannette Ross
Ron Silver
Massuese (uncredited)
Dan Perri
Title Designer
John Bailey
Camera Operator
David Myers
Director of Photography
Alan Rudolph
Director
Robert Altman
Producer
Alan Rudolph
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