Short Cuts (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) R

Short Cuts raises the roof on America.
Short Cuts (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)
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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 3 hours, 7 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 18, 2016
  • Originally Released: 1993
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh95%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 22,699
Rating: 5/5 -- The lives are often desperate and the characters inarticulate, but the group portrait is as grandly, sometimes as hilariously, realized as anything the director has ever done.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
A movie of Carver's work needed to show this process whereby simple acts and objects are also abstractions. Altman has shown it... Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Aug 14, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- Performances are low key but accomplished, comedy and tragedy are delicately balanced and the whole thing has the feel of a sprawling but very absorbing soap. Full Review
Film4
Feb 27, 2008
...Altman is fascinated by the accidental nature of life....He likes the messiness and coincidence of real life, where you can do your best, and some days it's just not good enough...
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 22, 1993
Whether their characters are congenial, contemptible or just absurd, Altman gets the best from an extraordinary company. Full Review
Hartford Courant
May 11, 2018
Worth the buy for one scene: watching a young Robert Downey, Jr. elbow-punch a couch. Full Review
ChaseWhale.com
Oct 19, 2016
Rating: 5/5 -- Triumphantly fierce, funny, moving and innovative.
Rolling Stone
May 13, 2001

Product Description:

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 wife (Tom Waits and Lily Tomlin)--Altman reveals their common threads of family dysfunction and marital discord in the unforgiving glare of the Southern California sunlight. The result is a sweeping motion picture that also stands as an important sociological artifact of late 20th century Los Angeles life.

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  • UPC: 715515188210
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