A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
April 4, 2007
Original Title:
LA Blues
Alternate Titles:
L.A. Blues
Los Angeles Blues
Genres:
Comedy
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: R
Runtime: 95
Opening in a Hollywood parking lot on New Years Eve as a crowd gathers around an ambulance as a guy is being loaded in on a gurney, the story is told in flashback by one of the characters to a female detective who comes on the scene of what may have been an attempted suicide and he unravels the story of a year in the lives of 6 guys who hang out in a blues bar in Hollywood, watch sports, trash talk, and bitch about their lives, as they go through problems ranging from construction nightmares to divorce, gambling addiction, alcoholism, child custody fights, and all the headaches and heartaches men go through in the course of their lives. As the story unfolds, the audience is left wondering which one of these guys ended up in the ambulance, and why. The blues soundtrack is true to the nature of the music itself, and to the movie, as it's about heartache and longing, loving and losing, striving and failing.
"B" Camera Operator:
Carlos Arguello
Additional Still Photographer:
Kimberli Collette
Animation:
Arvin Bautista
Art Direction:
Ben Anderson
Assistant Editor:
Lauren Connelly
Assistant Makeup Artist:
Kate Betian
Donna Leby
Boom Operator:
Phil Schwartz
Chris Hults
Camera Loader:
Matthew Freedman
Casting:
Suzanne Goddard-Smythe
Casting Assistant:
Lauren Dickey
Costume Designer:
Sharon Sampson
Costume Supervisor:
Tracey Rogers
Director:
Ian Gurvitz
Director of Photography:
Patrick Rousseau
Editor:
Jason Stewart
Executive Producer:
Ian Gurvitz
Anthony Michael Hall
Randy Carter
First Assistant "B" Camera:
David Dowell
First Assistant Camera:
Robert Schierer
First Assistant Director:
Richard Silva
Key Hair Stylist:
Kim Robinson
Key Makeup Artist:
Charlotte Purifoy
Line Producer:
Madelyn Curtis
Original Music Composer:
Gerald Brunskill
Daniel Reddington
Producer:
Randy Carter
Production Coordinator:
Meghan Elizabeth
Production Design:
Bruce Ryan
Production Sound Mixer:
Michael Hoffman
Script Supervisor:
Kathleen Messmer
Second Assistant "B" Camera:
Matthew Freedman
Second Assistant Camera:
Tomaka Izumi
Second Assistant Director:
JoAnne Lowrie
Set Costumer:
Chantal Filson
Set Decoration:
Catherine Bosler
Sound Mixer:
Ryan Rees
Special Effects:
Rocky Gehr
Still Photographer:
Jeff Crandell
Unit Production Manager:
Randy Carter
Writer:
Ian Gurvitz
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