The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.

Keith Carradine
as Carroll Barber

Sally Kellerman
as Ann Goode

Geraldine Chaplin
as Karen Hood

Harvey Keitel
as Ken Hood

Lauren Hutton
as Nona Bruce

Viveca Lindfors
as Susan Moore

Sissy Spacek
as Linda Murray

Richard Baskin
as Eric Wood

Denver Pyle
as Carl Barber

John Considine
as Jack Goode
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The wealthy “Carl” (Denver Pyle) is reluctantly estranged from his musician son “Carroll” (Keith Carradine) who is, himself, a rather introspective womaniser who has no interest in committing to any of the women who have touched his life as he philanders around Los Angeles. Quite what any of these w...