Directed by Alan Rudolph
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, MGM Limited Edition Collection)
Meditative mood piece on the empty lives of LA residents caught up in the pursuit of fame and fortune. The center of the story is Keith Carradine, just arrived in town to write songs for a new album by Richard Baskin, whose melancholy voice sets the mood for the entire film. Carradine goes to bed with just about the entire female cast, and most on the first day. However, the one he might really love is not coincidentally the one he didn't go to bed with: the romantic, slightly ditzy, Geraldine Chaplin. She's got a laundry list of problems, mostly involving her husband Harvey Keitel, but ironically may be the sanest one of them all. Other women in his life include Sally Kellerman, Sissy Spacek and Lauren Hutton, all with their own eccentricities. Told very much in the style of its producer Robert Altman, favoring mood over plot, it occasionally becomes aimless and lacks a compelling story, yet that in itself reflects the characters in the film.
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