Short Cuts

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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 187

Budget: -

Revenue: $6,110,979

Language: en

Webpage: -

Release Info

1993-09-05
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1993-10-01
R
1994-01-05
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1994-05-11
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Content Score: 100

Multi-storied, fish-eyed look at American culture with some 22 characters intersecting--profoundly or fleetingly--through each other's lives. Running the emotional gamut from disturbing to humorous, Altman's portrait of the contemporary human condition is nevertheless fascinating. Based on nine stories and a prose poem by Raymond Carver.

Tagline

Short Cuts raises the roof on America.

Crew

Director:	Robert Altman
Writers:	Robert Altman, Raymond Carver, Frank Barhydt

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Cast

Julianne Moore
as Marian Wyman

Andie MacDowell
as Ann Finnigan

Tim Robbins
as Gene Shepard

Jack Lemmon
as Paul Finnigan

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Genres

Comedy
Drama

Production Companies

Fine Line Features, Spelling Entertainment, Avenue Entertainment

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A review by borderlinefilms

tripping over ourselves

While there's no cinematic equivalent to the Mona Lisa, I submit a list of the top ten American movies of the last 50 years in no particular order:

The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Mulholland Drive, Tree of Life, Boyhood, Short Cuts.

Whaaaaaa... Short Cuts? Is it even Altman's best work? Well, everything unique and original in the other movies on this list was done before... by Altman. (Is there anything the man hasn't tried?) And everything Altman achieved in his career ca... read the rest.