Welcome to L.A.

Welcome to L.A. (1977)

Genres - Drama, Music  |   Sub-Genres - Ensemble Film, Psychological Drama, Romantic Drama  |   Release Date - Nov 12, 1976 (USA - Unknown), Nov 12, 1976 (USA)  |   Run Time - 106 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Linda Rasmussen

Alan Rudolph's first feature Welcome to L.A. displays his characteristic mood of romantic despair utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around song-writer Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine) which spread out through the city. Barber is an aloof womanizer who cannot commit or love and is used by Rudolph to illustrate the loneliness inherent in big-city life. The film, featuring a haunting score by Richard Baskin, is a bit too ambitious for the beginning director. However, he gets good performances from Sally Kellerman as a lonely real estate agent, Geraldine Chaplin, as a Valley housewife addicted to taxi rides and Lauren Hutton as the mistress of a wealthy man.

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big-city, dating, encounter, escapades, liaison, loneliness, love, one-night-stand, promiscuity, romance, sex, sexual, single, songwriter