Rent Short Cuts (1993)
3.7 of 5 from 154 ratings
3h 0min
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- Synopsis:
What connects us? Is it our relationships? Proximity? Love, hate, confusion? What draws us together or keeps us apart? In this groundbreaking work, director Robert Altman poses answers to these questions by intricately intertwining the stories of legendary writer Raymond Carver. 'Short Cuts' burst onto the scene in 1993 and set the stage for an entirely new way of thinking about storytelling that has been fully comprehended and embraced by modern filmmakers in recent years. Winning a special award for its ensemble cast at the 1994 Golden Globes, Short Cuts features a seemingly endless dream cast. Never before and not since its release has a single film captured the range of human emotions and interactions like Short Cuts has. You're invited to experience the countless moments that make up these characters' lives at a time and in a place where death is never far away and life is on the tip of everybody's tongue. - Actors:
- Andie MacDowell, Julianne Moore, Tim Robbins, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon, Zane Cassidy, Matthew Modine, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Penn, Joseph C. Hopkins, Josette Maccario, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe
- Directors:
- Robert Altman
- Writers:
- Raymond Carver, Robert Altman
- Studio:
- Paramount
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- 10 Films to Watch If You Like Gosford Park, Getting to Know: Frances McDormand, Lions on the Lido, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Robert Altman
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Reviews (3) of Short Cuts
Great - Short Cuts review by JD
One of the Great American Movies.
Interlocking stories, multiple storylines, great cast and Julienne Moore’s ginger pubic hair, what’s not to like ?
2 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Inventive and influential but hard to like - Short Cuts review by JB
Robert Altman spent his career experimenting with depictions of normal life in extraordinary circumstances - meandering dramas with great actors conversing in overlapping dialogue in a sprawling semi-chaos. Short Cuts is a quintessential example of this but at three hours long, with an ensemble cast of 22 lead characters and with some dour, if brilliant, source material from Raymond Carver, it's frequently impressive but not easy to warm to.
The stories include a phone sex worker whose husband is suspicious and jealous of her job, a waitress who knocks down a child in her car, an artist with marital difficulties, a melancholic children's party clown… you get the picture. That cast adds a bit of levity, though - Julianne Moore, Lily Tomlin, Lili Taylor, Tom Waits, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Robbins to name just a few.
Clearly an influence on Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia amongst others, it's heady stuff but the dour tone, lack of much fleshed-out plot and its unchecked misogyny (there's any excuse for the women to disrobe and it is arguably a parade of weak male characters who come across as martyrs) make it hard to like. But come for the cast and the technical wizardry.
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Overated - Short Cuts review by HM
People's lives brush against each other as they pan out as a series of accidents. Intellectually interesting I suppose, but boring from the point of view of entertainment. Maybe even pretentious? Overlong to no great end frankly.
1 out of 4 members found this review helpful.