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Audience Member It’s got a good cast and a nice setup but I couldn’t find myself attaching to any of these characters. I’ve seen better story compilations than this. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/29/24 Full Review Audience Member Off-beat (like many independent movies) but good, different, original, effectively atmospheric. (Blobbo like.) Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Choose Me is an offbeat film about longing. Eve (Lesley Ann Warren) runs a bar that tends to be a hangout for the desperate. Eve is a woman who sleeps around quite a bit. Nancy (Geneviève Bujold) is a talk radio host who is always looking to learn more about love and sex. Mickey (Keith Caradine) is a pathological liar who often asks women to marry him. Rae Dawn Chong plays a young woman who's husband often cheats and hits her. The messy lives of these characters intersect and makes for an interesting story. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Wonderful funny, quirky movie with a sensational soundtrack. Reeks of the 80s, which works in this case. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Director Alan Rudolph was a protégé of Robert Altman (working as AD on Nashville, for example) and Choose Me offers a similar sort of unpredictable (almost plotless) experience as Altman once offered up. But the characters that Rudolph gives us here (a talk radio relationship therapist, a promiscuous bar owner, an escaped mental patient and/or former spy, among others) seem somewhat phony - people don't really talk the way that they are scripted here, all psychobabble with hearts on sleeves. Moreover, it is hard to really grasp any of the points that Rudolph may be wanting to make about love or sex or relationships (just what are all those prostitutes doing hanging around anyway?). I think I get it that the radio therapist (Genevieve Bujold) has difficulties with relationships herself but is "cured" to some degree by sex with romantic Keith Carradine (possibly mad) who nevertheless ends up with Lesley Anne Warren, the bar owner who can't say no to men but hates herself for it. I didn't get a sense that these were real people or that there are any real people like this. Still, the fact that the film doesn't telegraph where it is going keeps it watchable. Thinking about it like a stage play (especially as all the characters' paths intersect) probably makes the most sense. But it does have its merits as cinema as well with an astonishing EIGHTIES feel, some good cinematography and set design (including pink neon lighting everywhere) and a smooth Teddy Pendergrass soundtrack. But it is more than a little freaky just to think that these hair and clothing styles were normal at one point - now they seem as artificial as the rest of the film. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member This was something I was VERY pleased to grab on cable for a revisit for the first time since I saw it in my adolescence, and a film that I recalled really liking, as it told stories about people that seemed worldly and foreign to me at the time. I'm pleased to say that it holds up well and made me want to pursue more movies from this same director, just to see what else his work is like. Rental! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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