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Short Cuts

Short Cuts

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Key Information
Directors: Robert Altman
Stars: Tim Robbins
Actors: Dirk Blocker
Genre: Dramas
Subgenre: Recommended · Character Study · All-Star · Short Stories · Racy · Essential Cinema
MPAA Rating: R (MPAA)
Available Formats: DVD: Criterion Collection
UPC: 715515033626
Release Date: 1993
Running Time: 3hr 9min
Languages
Original Language: English
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD: Criterion Collection, 3hr 3min
Release Company: Image Entertainment, Inc. (October 14, 2008)
UPC: 715515033626
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS, 3hr 9min
Release Company: New Line Home Video (November 09, 1999)
UPC: 794043456831
Credits
Screenwriter: Robert Altman
Professional Reviews
: (03/01/1994, p.49-50, Geoffrey Macnab): "...SHORT CUTS is a logical triumph, certainly; a masterpiece of orchestration....Comic touches...biting irony and delight in observation..."
More Information
Details: Using the short stories of Raymond Carver as a jumping-off point, American maverick director Robert Altman weaves a tapestry of interlocking tales set against the seedy backdrop of contemporary middle-class Los Angeles. Tracking the various stages of denial, rage, and despair in the lives of several couples--a philandering cop and his masochistic spouse (Tim Robbins and Madeline Stowe); a helicopter pilot who gets revenge on his ex by trashing her house (Peter Gallagher and Frances McDormand); a man and woman whose perfect life falls apart when they lose their son in a hit-and-run accident (Bruce Davison and Andie MacDowell); a pool cleaner who listens in mounting frustration to his wife performing phone sex each day while tending her brood of children (Chris Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh); a wealthy couple who are haunted by an incident from the past (Matthew Modine and Julianne Moore); an aging jazz singer and her suicidal daughter (Annie Ross and Lori Singer); an alcoholic limo driver and his waitress...
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