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Love at Large (1990) on Netflix

R19901h 37mComedyDramaMysteryRomance

Inept private eye Harry Dobbs takes a nightclub job from Miss Dolan, who wants her lover, Rick, followed. The trail leads him to two women who seem married to the same man.

  • Netflix3.3/5
  • IMDb5.7/101,662 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes75%

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Plot summary

Private detective Harry Dobbs is inept at his job, and his girlfriend, Doris, is angry with him. Miss Dolan, a client he meets in a nightclub, hires him to trail her lover, Rick, and says the man may want her dead. Harry sets out after a different subject instead, a man who appears to lead a double life, and the case leads him to Mrs. King and Mrs. Ellen McGraw, two women who both seem married to that same man. A second investigator, Stella Wynkowski, turns up, and Harry works the case alongside her, unable to tell whether she is on his side.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Love at Large (1990)

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  • Alan Rudolph said Love at Large was made for Orion and put together in about a week; when a studio person asked if he could put a murder in, he replied that it was "a murder mystery without a murder."
  • Alan Rudolph said the film's story came from two inspirations: a screenplay about a female private eye that he could never get financed, and a story he had heard about a man with two families.
  • Alan Rudolph later said that his 1990 film Love at Large was only made because it had Tom Berenger in it.

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