Set under the brutally sunny skies of Depression-era Los Angeles, a tale of obsession that focuses on a city both exotic and vulgar, glamorous and raunchy a place of heat and dust. Full of imports--palm trees from Egypt and people from everywhere in search of health and wealth, fame and fortune L. A. is the city of first and last resort, where all dreams are supposed to come true.

So it is for Arturo Bandini, the ambitious son of Italian immigrants who dreams of becoming a famous novelist and marrying a beautiful blonde, and Camilla Lopez, a Mexican who longs to marry a WASP and shed her last name. In a time when Anglo-Chicano relations hang by tattered threads, Bandini and Camilla collide with one another, fighting the city and themselves to make their dreams come true.

Directed by
Robert Towne

Cast
Colin Farrell - Arturo Bandini
Richard Schickel - Mencken
Salma Hayek - Camilla Lopez
Donald Sutherland - Hellfrick
Eileen Atkins - Mrs Hargraves
Justin Kirk - Sammy
Idina Menzel - Vera Rifkin
Jeremy Crutchley - Solomon
Ronald France - Columbia Sweeper
Dion Basco - Filipino Houseboy

Production Co.
Cruise/Wagner Productions (C/W Productions)
Ascendant Pictures
VIP Medienfonds 3

Produced by
Redmond Morris
Mark Roemmich
David Selvan

Studio
Paramount Classics

Writer
Robert Towne
John Fante

Music
Ramin Djawadi
Heitor Pereira