Choose Me (1984)

I love this movie so much

A Masterpiece!

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

When I watched Choose Me, I became instantly involved, but seeing this film gave me a secret hope that there existed an even greater love than I had yet known. The film is based on three complex characters: Eve (Leslie Ann Warren), Mickey (Keith Carradine) and Nancy Love (Geneviève Bujold) whose love lives strangely intertwine, except they don't know it. Eve is a former prostitute that found inspiration to get off the street by deciding to purchase a bar bearing her name. Mickey is a man's man that would easily captivate any woman because he is the lover who isn't afraid to bear his soul or to say "I love you". He is also a fighter pilot, spy, expert mechanic, and photographer but most of all, he is a self-professed pathological liar who is just wants to win at love for once. He arrives at Eve's door looking to gamble on a love that he had once known, maybe. Dr. Nancy Love is a radio talk show host that gives relationship advice to her faithful listeners but her character demonstrates a clear inability to translate all that knowledge and genuine common sense into meaningful relationships with people in the real world. While the setting of the movie occurs mostly at night, it is also sultry and often reminiscent of a Red Light District. One of the other greater attributes to this film is that the entire soundtrack is exquisitely done by Teddy Pendergrass and each and every song is smoothly seductive and lyrically evocative of the desperation of all three of the characters. All of them one way or another is looking for a connection and one way or another they all find it. Some find love, some find that love isn't about staying in relationships that don't offer real connections outside other than temporal ones and some learn that in order to really live sometimes you just have to allow yourself to give in.I suppose what moved me most about Choose Me was its off-beat sensibility, passion and tenderness that the director, Alan Rudolph brought out of the actors and the storyline. I also found myself optimistic about the fact that no matter how many frogs you had already kissed; no matter how together you are or not, or how many nights you previously spent alone one day we all just might be chosen.

I read some of the other comments and apparently they saw a different movie than I did. This was a horrible awful movie, yet oddly I couldn't turn away from this train wreck. The characters were unlikeable and the plot was obvious. There is no continuity, hair goes from curly to straight to curly again in minutes! Not only was the acting boring, but the actors appeared board as well. In one love scene, Geneviève Bujold is stiff as a bored, then for about 30 seconds she moved (I'm sure the director told her to do something, ANYTHING) followed by more stiffness.The movie seemed dated even for its time. It was released in 1984, but seemed to be more like a 70s porn movie...without the sex.

Wow, where to begin with this film. The characters were mostly uninspired, broken, and sparsely developed; the plot was simple, boring, and overdone; the 'artsy' characteristics of the film weren't touching, clever, or interesting; and the cinematography wasn't appealing.I felt like I was thrust into a mid-80's MTV street dance video full of mentally-undeveloped, childishly-simple personas who couldn't believe they were who they are. The story didn't flow and felt like cogs meshing together in a very obvious way.A couple of the actors were good and portrayed realistic emotion. One character was developed and worthy of life. The 'point' of the movie isn't worth making.I was left feeling unamused.

I drove a long way to see this film, from Riverside to Santa Monica. Well, it was long way for me back then anyway. I loved it so much I sat through it twice that night, and came back a few nights later and sat through it twice again.This film works for me on so many levels I can't fully describe it, but I definitely identified (and still do, to be honest) with Keith Carradine's Mickey. Chong and Bujold are appealing (especially the latter) and Leslie Ann Warren has never been better.Rudolph and Carradine have at least one connection, by the by--the both worked on "Nashville".