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This critically praised sleeper stars Genevieve Bujold as Dr. Nancy Love, a romance-phobic radio sex therapist who inadvertently becomes roommates with Eve (Lesley Ann Warren), a sexually uninhibited bar owner and one of Dr. Love's frequent callers. Handsome, smooth-talking mental patient Mickey (Keith Carradine) comes to the .. Read more

Starring Lesley Ann Warren, Genevieve Bujold, Keith Carradine, Rae Dawn Chong
Director Alan Rudolph
Genres Drama

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This critically praised sleeper stars Genevieve Bujold as Dr. Nancy Love, a romance-phobic radio sex therapist who inadvertently becomes roommates with Eve (Lesley Ann Warren), a sexually uninhibited bar owner and one of Dr. Love's frequent callers. Handsome, smooth-talking mental patient Mickey (Keith Carradine) comes to the bar and proceeds to woo and confuse both women as well as an aspiring poetess, Pearl (Rae Dawn Chong), who suspects Nancy is having an affair with her abusive French husband, Zack (Patrick Bachau). As the wild nights progress, all the women find themselves drawn to the mysterious Mickey, arousing the wrath of Zack and ensuring hilarious, moving, and thought-provoking moments. It's a dreamy concoction of sex, love, and brilliant dialogue, all wrapped up in a purposely artificial neon-drenched atmosphere with deliriously romantic music from soul crooner Teddy Pendergrass. Filled with neat performances and cockeyed grace, CHOOSE ME was a career-defining hit for director Alan Rudolph, who would go on to make acclaimed films such as MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE and AFTERGLOW.

Starring Lesley Ann Warren, Genevieve Bujold, Keith Carradine, Rae Dawn Chong, John Larroquette, Patrick Bauchau
Director Alan Rudolph
Studio ARROW FILMS
Run time DVD: 1 hr 42 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Drama
Language English
Released DVD: 11 Oct 1999
Production year: 1984
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (4) of Choose Me

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    A languid psychological mosaic from writer/director Alan Rudolph, whose films resemble a slowed-down version of his mentor, Robert Altman's. In the neon-lit bar that is the focal point of this comedy-drama, the main characters are the bar's owner (Lesley Ann Warren) and a radio agony aunt (Geneviève Bujold). Both offer sex, but are neurotically frustrated until newcomer Mickey (Keith Carradine) becomes the man in their lives. Alan Rudolph's work is an acquired taste; once acquired, though, it's addictive.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...A free-flowing meditation on love, commitment, jealousy, radio call-in shows and just about anything else....[Carradine is] sexy, insistent..."

    • New York Times
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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    Rated - 4 stars

    Quirky, sincere, and great 80's hair

    Fans of early Hal Hartley will probably like this film as it shares many of the same characteristics - clever, somewhat 'stagey' dialogue and the odd intersecting destinies of people on the middle-class fringe (only in this case Los Angeles vs. Long Island)

    Even though it's a rougher film, I cared more about the characters' lives in Choose Me than I did about those in The Secret Lives of Dentists, or The Moderns, two other movies by Alan Rudolph.

      • A customer from London, England
      • Posted 19 Jul 2005 16:38

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  • Rated - 3 stars

    sex

    I saw it and thought it was dodgy, and it is,though the plot turning Play Miaty for Me on its head was good idea. I think.

      • A customer from London
      • Posted 15 Dec 2008 unknown

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