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L.A. Story
Directed by
Mick Jackson
PG-13
1991
1h 35m
Comedy
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Drama
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6.7
91%
75%
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With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a wacky weatherman tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early 1990s Los Angeles.
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Cast of L.A. Story
Steve Martin
Harris K. Telemacher
Victoria Tennant
Sara McDowel
Richard E. Grant
Roland Mackey
Marilu Henner
Trudi
Sarah Jessica Parker
SanDeE
Susan Forristal
Ariel
Kevin Pollak
Frank Swan
Sam McMurray
Morris Frost
Patrick Stewart
Mr. Perdue
Andrew Amador
Bob, News Anchor
Gail Grate
Gail
Eddie De Harp
Maitre D' at Brunch
M.C. Shan
Rap Waiter at L'Idiot
Frances Fisher
June
Iman
Cynthia
Tommy Hinkley
Ted
Larry Miller
Tom
Anne Crawford
Sharon
Samantha McCoy
Sheila
Thornton Simmons
Man
Dennis Dragon
Crook
Richard Stahl
Bank Executive
Aaron Lustig
Boring Speaker
Julianna McCarthy
Woman
Time Winters
Floss Waiter at L'Idiot
Pierre Epstein
Chef
Wesley Thompson
Jesse
George Plimpton
Straight Weatherman
David Glyn Price
Pilot
Wesley Mann
Tony
Mark Steen
Tod PA
Jaime Gomez
Tod PA
Amy Wallace
Tod PA
Cheryl Baker
Changing Room Woman
May Boss
Old Woman
Scott Johnston
Co-Pilot
Robert Lind
Chainsaw Juggler
Tony Marsico
Hard Rock Patron
Burt Nacke
Cameraman
Mary Pedersen
Airline Ticket Agent
Matt Stetson
Spokesmodel Teacher
Paula Abdul
Roller Skater in Front of Tail O' the Pup (uncredited)
Brian Banowetz
Bellman (uncredited)
Sean Michael Beyer
Parking Valet (uncredited)
Michael E. Burgess
Waiter (uncredited)
Chevy Chase
Carlo Christopher (uncredited)
Tina Cote
Extra (uncredited)
Larry Echerer
Boy in Yard (uncredited)
Woody Harrelson
Harris' Boss (uncredited)
Terry Jones
Sara's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
Rick Moranis
Gravedigger (uncredited)
Robert Picardo
Voicephone (voice) (uncredited)
Cindra Skotzko
Dressing Room Girl (uncredited)
Terri Wilson
Stage Hand (uncredited)
L.A. Story Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Harper Barnes
This is a wonderful movie.
New York Daily News
Hank Gallo
Granted, there are some memorable, big laughs here but the movie that surrounds them is largely forgettable.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
If L.A. Story isn't thematically consistent enough to qualify as a classic, it's still consistently entertaining.
San Francisco Examiner
Michael Sragow
A romantic Hellzapoppin' in a cushy milieu, this movie rivals prime Preston Sturges: "L.A. Story" is Martin's "Palm Beach Story."
Los Angeles Times
Peter Rainer
Despite the film's antic, hallucinatory shimmer, there's something heartfelt and substantial at its core.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...infused with a whole host of appealingly off-kilter elements...
Newsweek
David Ansen
More to the point, L.A. Story is giddy fun.
The Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge
Narratively, this crazy-grid comedy is slighter than a plate of California cuisine, but what it lacks in solid bulk it more than makes up for in its neon array of oddball cultural colors.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
L.A. Story has a fizzy-bubbly charm.
TIME Magazine
This is a very personal Martin project -- the sweet-souled, nonstop-funny testament of a native Angeleno. Sly and soulful, it's the comedy that dares to be dippy.
TV Guide
Unlike Woody Allen's New York City, which becomes a staging area for character angst and transformation, Martin's L.A. stifles the characters, and neither they, screenwriter Martin or director Jackson seem to be aware of it.
Variety
Variety Staff
Goofy and sweet, L.A. Story constitutes Steve Martin's satiric valentine to his hometown and a pretty funny comedy in the bargain.
Arizona Daily Star
Phil Villarreal
Perhaps Steve Martin's hair went white because his brain radiates with such boundless invention that all the pigment withered off the follicles.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Like Mr. Martin himself, L.A. Story seems basically decent, intelligent and sweet. It's a fanciful romantic comedy whose wildest and craziest notion is that Los Angeles, for all of its eccentricities, is a great place to live.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Steve Martin shows again in this film that he has found the right comic presence for the movies; the lack of subtlety in early films like The Jerk has now been replaced by a smoothness and unforced intelligence.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
If the material had been presented more insistently, it might have been insufferable, too goopy and new-age. Its modesty, though, is its prime virtue. It's breezy and light as cloud's breath -- not so much airheaded as air-hearted.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
To borrow from Abe Lincoln: Steve Martin's L.A. Story will make all of the people laugh some of the time, some of the people laugh all of the time but not...well, you know the rest.
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