Choose Me **** (1984, Geneviève Bujold, Lesley Ann Warren, Keith Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 11,568

Inventive writer-director-with-a-difference Alan Rudolph follows his Welcome to LA and Remember My Name with the deliciously quirky and perceptive 1984 adult comedy-drama film Choose Me about the relationships between repressed radio chat show sex therapist Nancy (Geneviève Bujold), free-love bar-owner Eve (Lesley Ann Warren) and sexy drifter Mickey (Keith Carradine), who pursues both of them and changes their lives.

Choose Me is a funny and surprising meditation on love, sex, lies, truth and eccentric mid-80s Los Angeles relationships, centered on Eve Lounge pick-up dive bar, stylishly directed by Rudolph, with a feast of fine acting, and it is gorgeously photographed (by cinematographer Jan Kiesser) in a neon-lit LA.

Also in the cast are Patrick Bachau, Rae Dawn Chong, John Larroquette, Edward Ruscha, Gailard Sartain and John Considine.

It was made on a budget of $835,000, and took $2 million at the box office.

The songs are performed by Teddy Pendergrass, who writes the title song.

Films directed by Alan Rudolph: Premonition (1972), Nightmare Circus (1974), Welcome to L A (1976), Remember My Name (1978), Roadie (1980), Endangered Species (1982), Return Engagement (1983), Songwriter (1984), Choose Me (1984), Trouble in Mind (1985), Made in Heaven (1987), The Moderns (1988), Love at Large (1990), Mortal Thoughts (1991), Equinox (1992), Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), Afterglow (1997), Breakfast of Champions (1999), Trixie (2000), Investigating Sex (2001), The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002) and Ray Meets Helen (2017).

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