"A quest."

2015

1h 58m

5.7(680 votes)

Drama

Romance

Overview

Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.

Where to Watch

Stream

Links & Resources

Website IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

7 videos

Cast & Crew

84 members

Acting

Christian Bale

Rick

Acting

Cate Blanchett

Nancy

Acting

Natalie Portman

Elizabeth

Acting

Brian Dennehy

Joseph

Acting

Antonio Banderas

Tonio

Acting

Freida Pinto

Helen

Acting

Wes Bentley

Barry

Acting

Isabel Lucas

Isabel

Acting

Teresa Palmer

Karen

Acting

Imogen Poots

Della

Acting

Peter Matthiessen

Christopher

Acting

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Fr. Zeitlinger

Acting

Cherry Jones

Ruth

Acting

Patrick Whitesell

Agent #1

No Image

Production

Rick Hess

Agent #2

No Image

Acting

Michael Wincott

Herb

Acting

Kevin Corrigan

Gus

Acting

Jason Clarke

Johnny

Acting

Joel Kinnaman

Errol

Acting

Clifton Collins Jr.

Jordan

Acting

Nick Offerman

Scott

Acting

Jamie Harris

Burglar

Acting

Lawrence Jackson

Burglar #2

No Image

Acting

Dane DeHaan

Paul

Acting

Shea Whigham

Jim

Acting

Ryan O'Neal

Ryan

Writing

Bruce Wagner

Bud Wiggins

Acting

Jocelin Donahue

Jocelin

Acting

Nicky Whelan

Nicky

Acting

Fabio

Acting

Joe Manganiello

Joe

Acting

Thomas Lennon

Tom

Acting

Joe Lo Truglio

Guest

Acting

Beau Garrett

Beau

Acting

Katia Winter

Katia

Acting

Jelly Howie

Jelly

Acting

Nick Kroll

Nick

Acting

Danny Strong

Directing

Сергей Бодров

Sergei

Camera

Jörg Widmer

Photographer

Acting

Kelly Cutrone

Model Agency Woman

Acting

Alpha Takahashi

Japanese Girl #1

Acting

Yumi Mizui

Japanese Girl #2

Acting

Slavitza Jovan

Tarot Card Reader

Acting

Naha Armády

Naha

No Image

Acting

Janette Roderick

Weightlifter

No Image

Acting

Thomas Barnes

Dr. Barnes

No Image

Acting

Isis Alize

Barbie

No Image

Acting

Cleo Bartolo

Maid

No Image

Acting

Leo Vendedda

Burn Victim #1

No Image

Acting

Deuce Wayne

Burn Victim #2

No Image

Acting

Melissa Haro

Model #1

Acting

Raquel Zimmermann

Model #2

Acting

Jessica Farrow

Model #3

No Image

Acting

Elizabeth Betzen

Model #4

No Image

Acting

Alana Marie

Photo Studio Model

No Image

Acting

Madeleine Wade

Dancer #1

Acting

Sara Mohr

Dancer #2

No Image

Acting

Pheobe Schraft

Harpist

No Image

Acting

Sarah Kaite Coughlan

Party Goer #1

Acting

Miranda Jewel

Party Goer #2

No Image

Acting

Riley Lee

Boss

No Image

Acting

Jennifer Connell

June

No Image

Acting

Paula Lema

January

No Image

Acting

Christie Beran

Vegas Pretty Girl

No Image

Acting

Ben Kingsley

Storyteller (voice)

Acting

Chéri Ballinger

Blond Spa Girl (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Elena Nikitina Bick

Model (uncredited)

Acting

Adrienne McQueen

Seductress (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Valiant Michael

Actor (uncredited)

Acting

Hazuki Kato

Party Girl (uncredited)

Acting

Nikki Magnusson

Casino Patron (uncredited)

Acting

Tamara Belousova

Dizzy Actress (uncredited)

Acting

Tara Beaulieu

(uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Jaime Gallagher

Nanny (uncredited)

Acting

Stephen D'Angelo

Steve (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Magali Widmer

Bartender (uncredited)

Acting

Mena Lovin

Actress (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Emely von Oest

Love (uncredited)

Acting

Leni Rico Maria Magdalena

Party Guest (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Dean Bruni

Party Guest (uncredited)

Acting

Allison Ott

Marie Antoinette (uncredited)

No Image

Writing

Dan Harmon

Dan Harmon (uncredited)

Acting

Theo Bongani Ndyalvane

Party Guest (uncredited)

Similar Movies

7.3

2025

Same Old West

In the backlands of Goiás, Brazil, brutish men who cannot deal with their weaknesses are constantly abandoned by the women they love. Sad and bitter, these men turn violently against each other.

Movie

6.5

2014

Jack Strong

Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.

Movie

8.2

2013

The Bright Day

THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governing capital punishment. A kindergarten teacher hopes to aid the father of one of her young students, a man accused of manslaughter, by convincing each of seven reluctant witnesses to come forward. No one lacks a hidden agenda in this drama in which shades of truth collide with self-interest and the specter of payback. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Movie

7.3

1967

Belle de Jour

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Movie

7.4

1997

Contact

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

Movie

8.1

1950

All About Eve

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Movie

7.6

1987

The Last Emperor

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Movie

8.1

2004

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

Movie

7.6

2000

Amores Perros

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man. Their lives are catapulted into unforeseen situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog.

Movie

7.6

2000

Billy Elliot

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Movie

7.3

1998

Run Lola Run

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

Movie

7.8

1987

Wings of Desire

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.

Movie

8.1

1966

Persona

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

Movie

7.3

1962

Lolita

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Movie

8.1

1952

Singin' in the Rain

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Movie

7.6

2022

The Eight Mountains

An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.

Movie

6.3

2004

I ♥ Huckabees

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.

Movie

6.4

2000

The Way of the Gun

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.

Movie

7.2

1984

The Karate Kid

New Jersey teen Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of thugs, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and, later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.

Movie

6.0

2004

In Good Company

Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.

Movie

Recommended Movies

6.6

2015

I Am Your Father

David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he has been apparently forgotten by Lucasfilm during thirty years, and decide to give him back the glory he never had. This is their last opportunity.

Movie

6.5

2015

Underdog

Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinces in search of happiness in nouveau-riche Oslo just like hundreds of thousands of other young Swedish people. But her new life has reached a deadlock. Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive sprial of temporary jobs, financial difficulties and wild partying. When she starts an extra job as as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home, she is thrown into a reality very far from her own.

Movie

6.3

1972

The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. "S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling particular intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague nightmare of mortality acquires the names and faces of OTHERS. This last is a process that requires a WITNESS; and what 'idea' may finally have inserted itself into the sensible world we can still scarcely guess, for the CAMERA would seem the perfect Eidetic Witness, staring with perfect compassion where we can scarcely bear to glance." – Hollis Frampton

Movie

7.6

1995

Developing

About the relationship between a girl and her single mother, who has breast cancer.

Movie

6.3

1985

Finnegan Begin Again

A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.

Movie

5.8

2013

To the Wonder

After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.

Movie

5.5

2017

Song to Song

In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.

Movie

6.3

2006

Conversations with Other Women

Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to the present.

Movie

6.4

2015

Les Cowboys

Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.

Movie

6.9

2003

PTU

Follows a police tactical unit during one dangerous night on the streets of Hong Kong as they try to recover a cop's stolen gun. Things turn deadly when they run into a web of gangland crimes.

Movie

7.5

1978

Days of Heaven

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

Movie

5.0

2016

Dad's Army

A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.

Movie

6.7

2025

The Luckiest Man in America

1984; Michael Larson, an unemployed ice-cream truck driver from Ohio, steps onto the game show "Press Your Luck" harboring a secret: the key to endless amounts of money. But his winning streak is threatened when the executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations.

Movie

6.7

2011

Omar Killed Me

In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad is found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in a French prison. Shocked by the case, and convinced of his innocence, journalist Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard moves to Nice to investigate, and uncover the truth...

Movie

6.4

2015

The Lady in the Van

The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

Movie

7.2

2015

Virgin Mountain

Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world.

Movie

6.0

2017

Wilson

Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.

Movie

6.5

2012

A Magnificent Haunting

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Movie

7.6

2011

The Turin Horse

A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.

Movie

6.6

2006

Goya's Ghosts

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.

Movie