Short Cuts (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R

Short Cuts raises the roof on America.
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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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User Ratings: 22,699
5 stars out of 5 -- SHORT CUTS paints a lonely picture of modern Los Angeles, capturing the idiosyncrasies of human behavior amid the uncertainty of everyday existence.
Empire
Feb 1, 2008
...SHORT CUTS splices together a world of gummed-up connections, of lives overlapping in an awesome plaid of chance encounters and terrible accidents...
Film Comment
Nov 1, 1993
As the grand ringmaster, it's here that Altman passes the baton to his actors , whose behavioral insights are critical to the film's success.
Variety
Feb 27, 2008
...Big, tumultuous, very fine....Most of the performances are astonishing...
New York Times
Oct 1, 1993
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
Whether their characters are congenial, contemptible or just absurd, Altman gets the best from an extraordinary company. Full Review
Hartford Courant
May 11, 2018
...Robert Altman has made his most complex and full-bodied human comedy since NASHVILLE in SHORT CUTS...
Variety
Sep 13, 1993

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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