Love at Large

Love at Large (1990)

Love is the only lead worth following.

Inept private investigator Harry Dobbs meets vampish new client Miss Dolan, who wants him to follow her abusive lover. But Dobbs sets about tailing a different person entirely – a mysterious character leading a double life. Harry, however, discovers that he himself is being followed by a distaff gumshoe.

Date of release
1990-03-09
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (36)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director
Alan Rudolph

Casting

Interesting facts

Love at Large is a 1990 American romance and mystery crime film directed by Alan Rudolph and starring Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins and Anne Archer.

Production

Rudolph said the story came from two inspirations - a film about a female private eye he had written but could not get financed, and a story he had heard about a man with two families.

Rudolph called it "my attempt to make a film for a popular audience. It was made for the only good studio—Orion—and it was put together in like a week. The only comment one of the studio people made was, “Can you put a murder in?” And I said, “No, this is a murder mystery without a murder.” That didn’t ring a bell for them, but that’s what it was intended to be. There’s no hiding that it was influenced by several noir comedies.

Rudolph later said the film was only made because it had Tom Berenger in it. Tom Berenger called his character "a combination of Inspector Clouseau, Charlie Chan, Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield (with a deep, deep voice)." Rudolph said "a lot of that film's edges were rounded off, not because they [Orion] imposed things on me but because I was trying to be a good guy about it."

Filming took place in Bend and Portland, Oregon.

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