Main Cast: Keith Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Lauren Hutton
Release Year: 1976
Country: US
Run Time: 103 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
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. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide
Scott Bushnell - Associate Producer, Tommy Thompson - First Assistant Director, Alan Rudolph - Director, Tom Walls - Editor, William A. Sawyer - Editor, Richard Baskin - Composer (Music Score), Richard Baskin - Songwriter, Monty Westmore - Makeup, David Myers - Cinematographer, Robert Altman - Producer, Jim Webb - Sound/Sound Designer, Richard Portman - Sound/Sound Designer, Chris McLaughlin - Sound/Sound Designer, Alan Rudolph - Screenwriter
The theme of romantic despair and shallowness is displayed utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around songwriter Carroll Barber, played by Keith Carradine, which spread out through the city. Barber is an aloof womanizer who cannot commit or love and is used by Alan Rudolph to illustrate the loneliness inherent in big-city life. The film features a continual score by Richard Baskin, present throughout, and features among its cast Sally Kellerman as a lonely real estate agent, Geraldine Chaplin, as a Valley housewife addicted to taxi rides, Lauren Hutton as the mistress of a wealthy man, Sissy Spacek as a southern housekeeper, and Harvey Keitel as a troubled business man.
