The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.
Director: Alan Rudolph
Stars: Keith Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Lauren Hutton, Viveca Lindfors, Sissy Spacek, Denver Pyle.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076910/
Watched online, distorted: shrunk to a window 1/4th full screen size, and surrounding backdrop is waves in motion, plus the film speed is increased so that runtime is 1h 26m.
12 songs in the Soundtracks, all Written by Richard Baskin, half are also performed by him on camera. The vocals are whiny, not just because of the increased speed of the video. The subject matter is whiny too.
My low rating is for the story. GC, LH, SS each appear nude at least waist up, GC also fully. Each of them plus SK sleeps with KC, who looks awful in goatee and fedora. I'm not sure whether VL also slept with him, perhaps previously. SK's husband also sleeps with SS, and GC's husband (HK) sleeps with (or almost does) SK. SK sleeps with her husband too. And this is not spouse swapping; this is random coupling.
Everyone is fairly miserable. It might be the smog, because GC is coughing like Camille, a film she talks about. At least she claims to be dying, and wants to move to the country for her health. (The smog was really bad in LA in the mid-70's. The poster doesn't do that justice.)
I guess they're all going through some sort of mid-life crisis, or SS is just living the sexual revolution. KC is rebelling from his rich father, poor baby. If he knows what he wants, I didn't catch it.
I don't know if this revealed any useful or interesting truth, but it surely provided little to no pleasure.
Lion's Gate, distr. UA, dir. Rudolph; 5
