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Reviews 46% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine) is a noncommittal, independently wealthy musician who spends his time drifting about Los Angeles from bed to bed. Carroll...
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Welcome to L.A. is prepackaged schlock that wastes...
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Teenager Joe Silveri (Matthew Barry) has a troubled...
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Apr 20, 1978 · Welcome to L.A.: Directed by Alan Rudolph. With Keith Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel. The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Alan Rudolph
- 1978-04-20
Welcome to L.A was widely panned as an empty, vacuous, pretentious film with the music by Richard Baskin deemed especially grating. The New York Times critic Richard Eder wrote: "The songs are a particular torment. The music whines, the lyrics complain, and Mr. Carradine sings them with a kind of hushed writhing, like a worm dying at the bottom ...
32 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: Easy to criticize, but . . . I love it. zorro6204 16 March 2004. Despite a fabulous cast led by Alan Rudolph regular Keith Carradine, this vacant, flat movie with virtually no plot is easy to classify as a lesser "Nashville" set on the West Coast.
(Though I would argue several are not really interesting enough to be considered full-fledged weirdos.) It's a deliberately aimless, shambolic hang-out movie about strained long-term relationships, loneliness, and infidelity. It's also one of the more morose Christmas movies you're likely to find.
Recommendations. The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.