Someone to Love (1987)

A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews each one on their opinions on love and loneliness.

Director:

Henry Jaglom

Writer:

Henry Jaglom

Stars:

Henry Jaglom, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Emil

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Henry Jaglom	...	Danny Sapir
Andrea Marcovicci	...	Helen Eugene
Michael Emil	...	Mickey Sapir
Sally Kellerman	...	Edith Helm
Oja Kodar	...	Yelena
Stephen Bishop	...	Blue
David Frishberg	...	Harry
Orson Welles	...	Danny's Friend
Geraldine Baron	...	Attendee
Ronee Blakley	...	Attendee
Minda Burr	...	Attendee
Jeff Dowd	...	Attendee
Deborah Edwards	...	Attendee
James Flaherty	...	Attendee
Barbara Flood	...	Attendee / Carol

Storyline

Durante un ricevimento a casa di Danny, regista cinematografico, un gruppo di amici e di attori ed attrici si incontrano per dissertare sull'amore e sull'amicizia. Orson Welles è il "giudice" di queste conversazioni.

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Plot Keywords:

director | loneliness | interview | party | brother brother relationship | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 April 1988 (USA)

Also Known As:

Alguien a quien amar

Filming Locations:

Santa Monica, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jagfilm, Rainbow Film Company, The, Rainbow Releasing

Technical Specs

Runtime:

111 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The last film appearance of Orson Welles.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Danny's Friend: We're not filmmakers, you know? We're just a ragtag bunch of people doing something that is technologically already almost passe. You know, that's a great problem with movies, is that they're always old-fashioned. It takes too long to make a movie. By the time your idea's on the screen, it's already dead.

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Connections

Featured in Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997)

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Soundtracks

"Long Ago and Far Away"
Written by Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin
Performed by Bing Crosby

User Reviews

Nobody makes films like Henry Jaglom

My feeling for Henry Jaglom's movies made in the eighties is most definitely ambivalent. While they are somewhat intriguing, they are also annoying. "Someone to Love" is a prime example. As with other works of his, Jaglom tends to use lovers, friends and acquaintances who are then afforded the opportunity to reveal their psychological makeup in thinly disguised characters. His preferred method is the talking head closeup.

Jaglom was fortunate enough to count Orson Welles as a personal friend, (he named his son after him). In "Someone to Love" Welles is allotted a couple of minutes of riveting screen time. It's only then that the movie really comes to life. The problem is, as always, Jaglom's characters are far less interesting to audiences than they are to him. One finds oneself not really caring too much about their problems in making lasting relationships, the central theme of the movie.

The most praiseworthy aspect of Jaglom's career is that he actually managed to emerge from this lengthy self indulgent phase and began making movies with a far wider scope. ("Last Summer in the Hampton" and "Déjà vu", his finest work to date.) Welles mentions that nobody makes movies like Jaglom. He is right, but that can be construed negatively. While Jaglom is notoriously self indulgent, there is a redeeming honesty and lack of pretentiousness in his artistic motives.

Music enthusiasts (of albeit lesser known performers) will enjoy short interludes performed by Stephen Bishop, Dave Frishberg and Andrea Marcovicci.