Poodle Springs is a 1998 neo-noir HBO film directed by Bob Rafelson starring James Caan, Dina Meyer, and David Keith. The film is based on the unfinished novel Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler, completed after his death by Robert B. Parker and published in 1989. Playwright Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay. In 1963, an aging Philip Marlowe is newly married to young socialite Laura Parker . The private investigator leaves his Los Angeles apartment behind and sets up a new base of operations in Poodle Springs, an upscale community in the desert a couple hours from L.A., where he and his wife... intend to live. "I don't do divorces," Marlowe impatiently explains to potential clients in a peaceful, relatively crime-free town. His rich wife Laura would prefer that Philip get out of this line of work entirely and live off her money or come into business with P.J. Parker , her politically connected father, but Marlowe isn't ready to permanently hang up his gun. As might be expected, crime follows Marlowe wherever he may be.
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| Release date: | July 25, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Bob Rafelson |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sydney Pollack, Jordan Kerner, Jon Avnet, William Horberg |
| Editor: | Steven Cohen |
| Music by: | Michael Small |
| Cinematography: | Stuart Dryburgh |