L.A. Story (15th Anniversary Edition) - Comedy Classic Movies on DVD (1991) Starring Steve Martin; Directed by Mick Jackson; Lions Gate : OLDIES.com

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Genre: Comedy

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Item Number:
LGT 18787D

DVD Features:

Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
Package Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English
Closed Captioned - English
Subtitles - English - optional

Additional Release Material:

Making of - The Story of L.A. Story
Deleted Scenes
Trailers

Interactive Features:

Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Map of Film Sites

Text/Photo Galleries:

Marketing Materials - 1991

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 02/21/1991

"...Sly, romantic fun..."

Entertainment Weekly - 01/21/2000

"...Warmly warped....[Parker] personifies the city's giddy spirit..." -- Rating: B

New York Times - 02/08/1991

"...Decent, intelligent, and sweet..."

Los Angeles Times - 02/08/1991

"...L.A. Story has a completely original spirit. It's wiggy yet deeply, helplessly romantic....The imagery has a spin to it, as if we too were being enswooned by it all..."

Total Film - 05/01/2000

"...A film which suffuses the world's most plastic city with a sense of wonder, giving this underrated feelgood comedy an irresistible glow..."

Widescreen Review - 07/01/2006

"[A] thoughtful comedy about life and love in the city of angels."

Ultimate DVD - 07/01/2006

4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] sweet and surreal romantic comedy..."

Product Description:

In this gentle send-up of life in L.A., a TV weatherman stuck in an unfulfilling relationship and embarrassing job receives a mysterious message from a freeway sign saying the weather will change his life. Soon his life is turned upside down--he loses his job, his agent, his girlfriend, and his reasons not to start living life to the fullest.

Plot Synopsis:

A wacky TV weatherman loses his job after taking off yet another weekend -- after all, he figures, L.A. weather never changes, does it? And his personal life is a mess too, because his relationship with his long-time girlfriend has gone kaput. Everything looks pretty dismal, when he unexpectedly meets a British journalist on assignment in L.A. and falls instantly in love. He fears he has no chance with her, though, and in desperation he starts a relationship with a ditzy young shopgirl who introduces him to the wonders of rollerskating and colonics. All the while he pines away for the journalist. Then, while driving down the L.A. freeways, he suddenly realizes that one of the highway signs is trying to communicate with him. He stops to read the messages, takes a risk, and trusts in them to save his life.

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Production Notes:

Co-stars Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant are husband and wife.
Film played at the Deauville Film Festival in late summer 1991.
Chevy Chase and Rick Moranis have uncredited cameos.
Steve Martin worked on the screenplay for this film on and off for 7 years.

Cast and Crew:

Starring		Steve Martin
Directed by		Mick Jackson
Produced by		Daniel Melnick & Michael Rachmil
Edited by		Richard A. Harris
Screenwriting by		Steve Martin
Composition by		Peter Melnick
Director of Photography		Andrew Dunn
Production Design by		Lawrence Miller
Cameo		Chevy Chase & Woody Harrelson
Performer		Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Marilu Henner, Patrick Stewart, Kevin Pollak, Sam McMurray, Frances Fisher, Iman, Tommy Hinkley & Larry Miller