Chaude journée à L.A.

Original title: Hugo Pool

1997
R
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

5.0/10

2.1K

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Alyssa Milano, Robert Downey Jr., Malcolm McDowell, Sean Penn, Patrick Dempsey, Cathy Moriarty, and Richard Lewis in Chaude journée à L.A. (1997)

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Satire Comedy Romance

An LA pool cleaner/Alyssa Milano falls in love with a young man with ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease.An LA pool cleaner/Alyssa Milano falls in love with a young man with ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease.An LA pool cleaner/Alyssa Milano falls in love with a young man with ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Director
- Robert Downey Sr.
Writers
- Robert Downey Sr.
- Laura Ernst
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.0/10

2.1K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Robert Downey Sr.
Writers
- Robert Downey Sr.
- Laura Ernst
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

Videos1

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Hugo Pool

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Trivia
Malcolm McDowell replaced Alan Arkin.

Goofs
After Hugo changes from her pants into her shorts (right before crying in the truck) she is seen cleaning her first pool wearing pants again. After that she is back in her shorts.

Quotes
Strange Hitchhiker: If words could speak, I'd still would have nothing to say.

Connections
Featured in Robert Downey Sr., le père (2022)

User reviews35

Featured review

Some fun moments, but 12 characters in search of an author!

There are a number of memorable acting turns, some more than obvious self-reflective references to addictions (of all types), and a too-pat hand of predictability to move this film beyond a 6 for me. The performances almost rise above the plot restrictions (or lack of restrictions)....an interesting contrast is Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune" which I saw two days later which used the characters' idiosyncrasies to move a plot.