Welcome to L.A.

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Welcome to L.A.

R

Released Nov 12, 1976

1h 46m

Drama

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Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine) is a noncommittal, independently wealthy musician who spends his time drifting about Los Angeles from bed to bed. Carroll jumps in and out of relationships with Ann Goode (Sally Kellerman), a real estate agent, and Nona Bruce (Lauren Hutton), the mistress of his father, to name a few. Also in Carroll's orbit is restless housewife Karen Hood (Geraldine Chaplin) and her husband, Ken (Harvey Keitel), an executive who works with the senior Barber.

Ray Pride

Newcity

Everything right and wrong with Rudolph's later filmography is present... Rudolph's variation on "La Ronde" is bed-happy and behaviorally tone-deaf, but... the lustrous and trashy [L.A.] captured by David Myers provides a bittersweet time capsule.

Rated: 9/10

Jul 13, 2023

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Steven K. Blevins

Gay Community News (Boston)

Welcome to L.A. is prepackaged schlock that wastes considerable talent in its search for the meaning of meaninglessness.

Sep 13, 2022

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Ruth Batchelor

Los Angeles Free Press

Welcome to L.A. is a film that would make me want to be anywhere but.

Oct 16, 2019

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Bernard Drew

Gannett News Service

Director Rudolph is somewhat sharper than writer Rudolph, who has attempted to educate us on how it is to live, love, and lose in Hollywood today.

Jul 9, 2019

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If you like Robert Altman movies, you mustn't miss this

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

The best representation of life in '70s California.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Alan Rudolph's directorial debut remains odd, quirky and filled with a sort of lazy and erotically charged energy. Far from perfect, but a very interesting perspective on a very specific group of people, place and time long since gone.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Audience Member

along with 1977's '3 women' my two fave '70's flicks

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Alan Rudolph's first film and it's as if he took the worst ideas of Jean-Luc Godard and his mentor, Robert Altman, and thought they were gold. The film is truly awful but I've never really been able to resist it, to my utter shame.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

sort of altman-lite, tho rudolph is a bit more of a romantic. this is altman's erstwhile assistant's debut feature, which seems like the continuing adventures of keith carradine's character in 'nashville'. he plays a writer of rather bad songs and son of a millionaire, who has a string of relationships with altman regulars sally kellerman, geraldine chaplin, sissy spacek, etc. even lauren hutton and harvey keitel are in this, harvey smoking a pipe and acting mostly uptight. some good performances and dialogues and structure similar to 'shortcuts', this was the first of a trilogy that ended with the far superior 'choose me'. rudolph seems to use distinctive music in each of his films, and the biggest problem here was the terrible folk-rock singer, richard baskin, whose performances throughout provide a running commentary on the characters' lonely lives. it was all i could do not to fast forward through these parts, but the film was interesting enough to finish

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Carroll Barber

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Geraldine Chaplin

Karen Hood

Harvey Keitel

Ken Hood

Lauren Hutton

Nona Bruce

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Synopsis

Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine) is a noncommittal, independently wealthy musician who spends his time drifting about Los Angeles from bed to bed. Carroll jumps in and out of relationships with Ann Goode (Sally Kellerman), a real estate agent, and Nona Bruce (Lauren Hutton), the mistress of his father, to name a few. Also in Carroll's orbit is restless housewife Karen Hood (Geraldine Chaplin) and her husband, Ken (Harvey Keitel), an executive who works with the senior Barber.

Director: Alan Rudolph
Producer: Robert Altman
Screenwriter: Alan Rudolph
Distributor: United Artists
Production Co: Lions Gate Films
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 12, 1976, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 4, 2021
Runtime: 1h 46m