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Love at Large

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Inept private investigator Harry Dobbs (Tom Berenger) meets new client Miss Dolan (Anne Archer), who wants him to follow her abusive lover. But Harry sets about tailing a different person entirely -- a mysterious character leading a double life (Ted Levine). Harry, however, discovers that he himself is being followed by distaff gumshoe Stella Wynkowski (Elizabeth Perkins). Eventually the two team up in hopes that together they can get to the bottom of this imbroglio.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 01/01/2000
1/4
Here is a movie that looks like a parody, sounds like a parody and plays like a parody, but isn't a parody -- because the genre it's making fun of doesn't exist. Go to Full Review
Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) 10/28/2022
The production design, the costume, the music... launches Love at Large into that prohibited planet where Rudolph's films happen. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 10/20/2020
3/5
Deliberately strange, to the degree where Love at Large refreshingly defies easy categorization, Rudolph's bizarre universe feels innovative even as it leads to an expected finale. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/04/2005
2/5
Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice 08/30/2004
3/5
Love at Large probes the comic, obsessive and manipulative sides of love. Go to Full Review
Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal 02/13/2004
4/5
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Jelisije J @jjosifovic 3h A movie that kept me guessing what was going to happen every single 10 minutes is such a welcome surprise that I find this film highly underrated. See more Chris K @RT08240173 12/23/2024 Female leads look too simular. Add that to the dreary rainy sets, This who dun-it is really a who-is- that? See more Steve D @RT35616104 09/09/2023 The tone didn't work at all for me. See more 07/11/2016 This film go largely poor reviews, but for whatever reason the films of director Alan Rudolph always get me. A lot of his films seem to exist in their own universe. The noir elements of this film and "Trouble in Mind" feel quite similar, but even his films like "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" or "Choose Me" seem to exist on their own plane of reality. Tom Berenger plays a hard-boiled private investigator hired by Anna Archer to tail her shady boyfriend, which leads to a Raymond Chandler-esque serpentine mystery. Add in a competing P.I. in the form of equally tough-as-nails Elizabeth Perkins and you have an interesting love triangle of sorts between the three leads. What makes "Love at Large" memorable is writer/director Alan Rudolph and the unique style he brought to an oddball series of films he made in the 80s and early 90s, which seemed to exist somewhat out of time ("Trouble in Mind" "The Moderns" "Mrs. Parks and the Vicious Circle" and this film). These films were throwbacks to another time, but incorporated 80s/90s pastels and neon color palettes, along with modern sensibilities to the characters and situations. Composer Mark Isham's score also nicely balances a score that feels period yet also contemporary. Although the "Love at Large" meanders and is slow at times, the cast, which also includes Ted Levine, Kate Capshaw, Ruby Dee, Kevin J. O'Connor, Annette O'Toole, Anne Magnuson, and Neil Young, and Rudolph's visual style make the film well worth watching for fans of old school noir and 80's indie flicks. FUN FACT! "Love at Large" was filmed primarily in Portland, Oregon. See more 06/13/2016 Private eye investigates mysterious woman's cheating husband and uncovers something much deeper in this underrated and overlooked suspense yarn. See more 03/27/2014 (** 1/2): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Inept private investigator Harry Dobbs (Tom Berenger) meets new client Miss Dolan (Anne Archer), who wants him to follow her abusive lover. But Harry sets about tailing a different person entirely -- a mysterious character leading a double life (Ted Levine). Harry, however, discovers that he himself is being followed by distaff gumshoe Stella Wynkowski (Elizabeth Perkins). Eventually the two team up in hopes that together they can get to the bottom of this imbroglio.
Director
Alan Rudolph
Producer
David Blocker
Screenwriter
Alan Rudolph
Production Co
David Blocker Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Romance, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 3, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA)
$708.6K
Runtime
1h 37m
Sound Mix
Surround
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