Product Details

• Actors: Keith Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Lauren Hutton
• Directors: Alan Rudolph
• Producers: Robert Altman
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: CBS/FOX
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000E0ECU0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,720 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.

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64 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The city is the star, but the rest of the cast are all great too!, October 2, 2009

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A. P. Monblat (Sutton, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Welcome to L.A. (VHS Tape)

A wonderful tribute to one of the world's most underrated but most familiar cities. You know it even if you have not been there. I would wager that more films are set in LA than any other city on the planet. Its combination of tall palm trees, hills and mountains, beaches and stylish skyscrapers make it visually truly stunning. But enough of the travelogue!! The film has a wonderfully atmospheric quality - very 1970s (in a good way) - and the actors never put a foot wrong. I love French films and there is something Gallic about the direction. Another French connection is Geraldine Chaplin, who numbers a couple of films from that country in her distinguished career.

I won't tell you any more or I might spoil things, just go and buy this today on DVD - and enjoy!!! Or maybe not. One little problem - you can't buy it on DVD because it is unavailable. This is ridiculous. If you would like to have this movie re-released, please mark this review as "helpful".

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Completely ridiculous for this not to be on DVD, June 7, 2006

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Nobody - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome to L.A. (VHS Tape)

How can it be? Surely every film buff has seen this film, I've watched it maybe 10, 15 times. A solid cast, an early film by an outstanding director, like it or not, it's a historically important movie for film appreciation alone. It makes no sense that something which annually pops up on IFC and other places isn't on DVD. Some kind of rights dispute? Note that Rudolph's "Trouble in Mind", an equally interesting film with a unique cast, is also missing.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INFO, March 2, 2007

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CD & VIDEO RESEARCHER "festivalcds" (il) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome to L.A. (VHS Tape)

This mosaic comedy-drama tells the story of a La Ronde-like circle of romantic adventures and failed affairs centered around a songwriter named Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine) and his father Carl Barber (Denver Pyle). There is a trail of Carroll's past relationship spread throughout the city of Los Angeles. Barber is an aloof womanizer who cannot commit to any relationship, and is used to illustrate the loneliness of Los Angeles big-city life. Among the women in his life are Ann Goode (Sally Kellerman), a lonely real estate agent, Karen Hood (Geraldine Chaplin), a Valley housewife addicted to taxi rides, Linda Murray (Sissy Spacek), a woman prone to vacuuming in the nude and Nona Bruce (Lauren Hutton), the snapshot-taking mistress of a wealthy man