L.A. Without a Map (1998) on Netflix

Plot summary

Richard is twenty-two, a Scottish undertaker in Bradford, in the north of England, who writes obituaries for the local paper while he dreams of becoming a screenwriter. At a burial he meets Barbara, a young American who wants to act in Hollywood and is visiting the town. She goes back to Los Angeles and tells people there about the British writer she met. Richard, infatuated, flies out without telling his fiancée and turns up at the Japanese restaurant where Barbara waits tables. She has a boyfriend, the director Patterson, though she insists it is only professional. A man he befriends, Moss, helps him find a place to live and work as a pool cleaner while he hopes to hear from her.