- Release Date: 1984
- Runtime: 114 min
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Starring: Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau ... see all
- Director: Alan Rudolph
- Plot: Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
User Reviews
wonderfully quirky and complex
Mar 10, 2007
jrcoxx - imdb.com
Mar 10, 2007jrcoxx - imdb.com
Since my first viewing of this film, I have never been quite able to get it out of my mind. The principal characters interact in simultaneously theatrical and believable fashions, and Genevieve Bujold as the crazy "Doctor Love" is simply irresistible.... Full review
Romantic, intelligent, colorful, adult movie
Aug 06, 2005
Wayne Malin - imdb.com
Aug 06, 2005Wayne Malin - imdb.com
Lesley Ann Warren owns a bar in LA. She has the habit of sleeping around with almost any man--she's just looking for love. Genevieve Bujold plays a radio relationship talker, Dr. Love. She has severe issues herself with love and sex.... Full review
Finally, the pieces fall together
Mar 04, 2002
pderocco - imdb.com
Mar 04, 2002pderocco - imdb.com
Alan Rudolph has a quirky sensibility that makes all his movies worth watching once, but the pieces usually seem not to fit quite right. But this time is different. The story is well-crafted, witty, light-hearted, like a Cole Porter lyric. Cinematic... Full review
Strides with confidence into the netherworld of sexual politics.
Feb 28, 2002
budmassey - imdb.com
Feb 28, 2002budmassey - imdb.com
This film strides with confidence into the netherworld of sexual politics. The story is overloaded with allusion, and the actors all render brilliantly nuanced performances inside characters that bristle with sexual energy and conflict. Geneviève Bujold, as Dr. Nancy Love, is... Full review
Sublime Trash
Jan 31, 2002
Curtis Mark Stratmeyer - imdb.com
Jan 31, 2002Curtis Mark Stratmeyer - imdb.com
With atmosphere to spare. If you've never wandered LA's back-streets at night, this movie will give you a taste. The theme of this movie is a common one, the search for love. Highly stylized. Overloaded with delicious details and clever ideas.... Full review
Offbeat and catchy
Aug 06, 2000
bigdiogi - imdb.com
Aug 06, 2000bigdiogi - imdb.com
Saw this film on a whim and became entranced. The strange premise was intriguing and the plot twists continued to catch me off guard. The wistful longing for romance displayed by the lead actor will touch a cord with anyone who... Full review
A good Alan Rudolph movie
Aug 03, 2000
bama1111 - imdb.com
Aug 03, 2000bama1111 - imdb.com
I love stories with overlapping characters. This is one of them and I really enjoyed it. Interesting and somewhat mysterious characters, some seemingly separate but unknowingly linked together in an intricate pattern. I always liked Lesley Anne Warren who, along with... Full review
Critics Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
It's as if Rudolph wanted to tell a story as it might actually have happened, with coincidental meetings, dumb misunderstandings, random chance, and the endless surprises of human nature.
And since one of the pleasures of this movie is the leisurely and logical way it explores the implications of mistaken identity, I'm not going to write another word about the confusions the characters get involved in.
... Full Review
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