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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.
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Ray Pride Newcity 07/13/2023
9/10
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. Go to Full Review
Steven K. Blevins Gay Community News (Boston) 09/13/2022
Welcome to L.A. is prepackaged schlock that wastes considerable talent in its search for the meaning of meaninglessness. Go to Full Review
Ruth Batchelor Los Angeles Free Press 10/16/2019
Welcome to L.A. is a film that would make me want to be anywhere but. Go to Full Review
Bernard Drew Gannett News Service 07/09/2019
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. Go to Full Review
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01/15/2020 If you like Robert Altman movies, you mustn't miss this See more 03/11/2018 The best representation of life in '70s California. See more 05/22/2015 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. See more 06/04/2013 along with 1977's '3 women' my two fave '70's flicks See more 11/03/2012 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. See more 11/25/2011 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 See more Read all reviews
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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
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