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Welcome to California

🎞️ Movie 97 min --
โ˜… 7.2 /10 2005

WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA is a bold examination of the loneliness inside of relationships. The film centers on the strained marriage of Undine Jones, an actress, and John Goodman, a well-regarded composer. The story opens as the two are driving cross-country from New York to California to start over - hoping that the move will renew their relationship. Within weeks, Goodman is back in New York and Undine has begun work on a movie where she is drawn into an instinctively unavoidable relationship with one of the film's crew, Jim Travis. It is through Undine and Jim's connection that the film explores lust, love, intimacy, the past and forgiveness. Traylor's use of the California desert resonates with the search of her characters; in the most barren of landscapes, it finds wildflowers that bloom.

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

Mike White
Mike White
John Goodman
Susan Traylor
Susan Traylor
Undine
Christopher Thornton
Christopher Thornton
Jim Travis
Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Arquette
Prostitute
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Christina Bartlett
Lisa (Jim's girlfriend)
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Kristina Bartlett
Lisa
Ed Begley Jr.
Ed Begley Jr.
Documentary Narrator
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Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Sylvia
Christian Camargo
Christian Camargo
Jimmy Smith
Seymour Cassel
Seymour Cassel
Jim's Father
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Paul Ryan
Cinematographer