Robert Altman
Short Cuts
Edition 1993
185'
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1993
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Drama, Comedy
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Dialogue:
English
Director:
Robert Altman
Composer:
Mark Isham
With:
Tim Robbins, Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Penn, Matthew Modine, Julianne Moore
In Altman's most complex and innovative structure, the stories interweave like themes in a jazz symphony. Jazz plays a major part in the film in the person of Annie Ross, the singer-actress who plays a decaying saloon singer. Her daughter is a classica! cellist, and the two kinds of music reinforce the theme of emotional dissonance between parents and children, lovers and losers. A young mother works as a telephone sex girl. An L.A. cop cheats on his wife with another woman whose helicopter pilot ex-husband takes a grotesque revenge on her.
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Credits
Director
Robert Altman
Composer
Mark Isham
With
Tim Robbins, Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Penn, Matthew Modine, Julianne Moore
Scenario
Robert Altman, Frank Barhydt
Director of Photography
Walt Lloyd
Editor
Geraldine Peroni
Producer
Cary Brokaw
More information
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
Raymond Carver
Year
1993
Filmography
Robert Altman
Modern Football (short, 1951), The Sound of Bells (short, 1952), King Basketball (short, 1952), The Last Mile (short, 1953), How to Run a Filling Station (short, 1953), The Dirty Look (short, 1954), The Builders (short, 1954), Better Football (short, 1954), The Perfect Crime (short, 1955), The Magic Bond (short, 1956), The James Dean Story (1957), The Delinquents (1957), The Party (short, 1964), The Katherine Reed Story (short, 1965), The Happening (1967), Countdown (1967), Pot au feu (short, 1967), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), M*A*S*H (1970), Brewster McCloud (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Images (1972), The Long Goobye (1973), Thieves Like Us (1974), California Split (1974), Nashville (1975), Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977), A Wedding (1978), Quintet (1979), A Perfect Couple (1979), HealtH (1980), Popeye (1980), Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), Streamers (1983), Secret Honor (1984), Fool for Love (1985), O.C. and Stiggs (1985), Beyond Therapy (1987), Aria (1987), Vincent & Theo (1990), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Ready to Wear (1994), Kansas City (1996), The Gingerbread Man (1998), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Dr. T & the Women (2000), Gosford Park (2001), The Company (2003), A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
