L.A. Story (15th Anniversary Edition)
by Mick Jackson
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Actor: Marilu Henner, Richard E. Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Steve Martin, Victoria TennantDirector: Mick Jackson
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Producer: Steve Martin
Writer: Steve Martin
Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn
Editor: Greg Le Duc
Producer: Daniel Melnick
Producer: Mario Kassar
Producer: Michael I. Rachmil
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of L.A. Story (15th Anniversary Edition)
Movie Review: O Pointy Birds, O Pointy Pointy...
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I say that hasn't already been said before? I was mesmerized by this film when I first saw it in theatres back in 1991. To me, L.A. Story is the quintessential fairy-tale/romantic comedy of Los Angeles. The city itself plays a central part in this story. New York and San Francisco are wonderful places in their own right, but Steve Martin sums up that certain something about L.A. that makes it the wonderfully peculiar, romantic, dreamy, quirky, and iconic city that it is.
This film also has some of the most memorable film quotes (they certainly rank among my favorites):
Harris: Let us just say I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
Harris: I'll have a half double decaffeinated half-caf, with a twist of lemon. (I thought this was a joke... until I started seeing people order oddball drinks like this at Starbucks stores which were beginning to crop up all over Southern California in the early 1990s.)
Harris: Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment when love begins but we always know when it ends?
Harris: Forget for this moment the smog and the cars and the restaurant and the skating and remember only this. A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
Harris: SanDeE*, your... your breasts feel weird.
SanDeE*: Oh, that's 'cause they're real.
Sara: Why didn't you tell me you had just broke up with someone?
Harris: How do you know I just broke up with someone?
Sara: Because when men just break up with someone, they always run around with someone much too young for them.
Harris: She's not so young. She'll be 27 in four years.
Sara: What did you have in mind?
Harris: Well, I was thinking of taking you on a cultural tour of L.A.
Sara: That's the first fifteen minutes, then what?
Harris: All right, a cynic. First stop is six blocks from here.
Sara: Why don't we walk?
Harris: Walk? A walk in L.A.?
Harris: Sitting there at that moment I thought of something else Shakespeare said. He said, "Hey... life is pretty stupid; with lots of hubbub to keep you busy, but really not amounting to much." Of course I'm paraphrasing: "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Harris: So there I was jabbering at her about my new job as a serious newsman - about anything at all - but all I could think was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful and yet again, wonderful.
Harris: Ordinarily, I don't like to be around interesting people because it means I have to be interesting too.
Sara: Are you saying I'm interesting?
Harris: All I'm saying is that, when I'm around you, I find myself showing off, which is the idiot's version of being interesting.
Harris: There comes a time in a person's life when it's now or never. It's now or never. Let me read to you from this book of poems: "O pointy birds, o pointy pointy. Anoint..."
Summary of L.A. Story (15th Anniversary Edition)
Harris Telemacher is the "Wacky Weather" presenter for a Los Angeles television station. He finds himself battling the insane conditions and people caused by the manic chaos that is Los Angeles. Striving to achieve happiness (or at least a date) he finds a helping hand from the last person he expected: the city of Los Angeles itself.System Requirements:Running Time: 98 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY Rating:?PG-13 UPC:?012236187875 Manufacturer No:?18787Steve Martin wrote this film as a meditation on both love and Los Angeles (and then-wife Victoria Tennant). He plays a L.A. TV weatherman who finds himself conflicted about what to do with his life, both professionally and personally. As he works his way through a couple of relationships (including a very funny one with a frisky Sarah Jessica Parker, who talks him into colonic therapy), he discovers a L.A. freeway sign that gives him romantic advice. It helps him realize what he knows intuitively: that the British woman he is attracted to (Tennant) is the one he should pursue. A big cast (and lots of cameos) have fun with this witty (if slight) material and director Mick Jackson adds visual pizzazz. --Marshall Fine
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