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UNITED STATES · 1976

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Alan Rudolph
estranged family relationships Hollywood entertainment industry artistic ambition self-delusion and fantasy holiday season
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Synopsis

The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusio

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