LA Blues (2007) [R]

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.

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"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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