Choose Me
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 Choose Me theatrical poster |
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| Directed by | Alan Rudolph |
| Produced by | Carolyn Pfeiffer David Blocker |
| Written by | Alan Rudolph |
| Starring | Geneviève Bujold Keith Carradine Lesley Ann Warren |
| Music by | Phil Woods Luther Vandross Teddy Pendergrass (title song) |
| Cinematography | Jan Kiesser |
| Editing by | Mia Goldman |
| Distributed by | Island Alive |
| Release date(s) | August 29, 1984 |
| Running time | 114 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Choose Me is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Alan Rudolph. It was rated R by the MPAA. The film's tagline is In the middle of the night, when there's no one else...
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[edit] Synopsis
Nancy, a.k.a. "Dr. Love", is a radio talk show host unskilled at practicing what she preaches. She eventually meets Mickey, a romeo with women whose wildly varied experiences and stories make people assume him to be a compulsive liar.
Mickey also gets to know Eve, who is a former prostitute who now owns a bar bearing her name.
The three lead lonely, unfulfilling lives in Los Angeles. They have never met before, but their experiences become intertwined and complicate a number of lives.
[edit] Cast
| Actor/Actress | Role |
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| Geneviève Bujold | Nancy |
| Keith Carradine | Mickey |
| Lesley Ann Warren | Eve |
| Patrick Bauchau | Zack Antoine |
| Rae Dawn Chong | Pearl Antoine |
| John Larroquette | Billy Ace |
| Edward Ruscha | Ralph Chomsky |
| Gailard Sartain | Mueller |
[edit] Critical reaction
The film is reviewed favourably in Pauline Kael's eighth collection of movie reviews State of the Art: "The love roundelay Choose Me, written and directed by Alan Rudolph, on a budget of $835,000, is pleasantly bananas. The songs are performed by Teddy Pendergrass and he's just right. The entire movie has a lilting, loose, choreographic flow to it [...] this low-budget comedy-fantasy has some of the most entertaining (and best-sustained) performances I've seen all year."
The film was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Choose Me". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1298/year/1984.html. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
[edit] External links
- Choose Me at the Internet Movie Database
- Choose Me at AllRovi
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