Welcome To L.A (1976)

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

Keith Carradine - Carroll Barber
Sally Kellerman - Ann Goode
Geraldine Chaplin - Karen Hood
Harvey Keitel - Ken Hood
Lauren Hutton - Nona Bruce
Viveca Lindfors - Susan Moore
Sissy Spacek - Linda Murray
Denver Pyle - Carl Barber
John Considine - Jack Goode
Richard Baskin - Eric Wood
Cedric Scott - Faye
Mike E. Kaplan - Russell Linden
Diahnne Abbott - Jeannette Ross
Allan Nicholls - Dana Howard
James Keach