Short Cuts

 (1993)

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User Reviews

Interesting
Jan 27, 2008
ledman0030 - yahoo.com
I almost stopped watching after the first hour but stuck with until the end. I'm glad I did. It sucked me in. I wanted to know what happened to these people.... Full review
This movie was boring
Nov 09, 2007
nmccarthy14 - yahoo.com
Maybe I'm not refined enough to appreciate this movie, but I thought it was boring from the first scene to the last scene. I would say that less that 5 interesting things happen in the movie. I found the characters to... Full review
Loved It
Aug 04, 2007
tomschu_56 - yahoo.com
Compelling movie. Filled with characters who are dysfunctional and real. Three hours long but went very quickly and I wanted it to go on longer. I watched August 2007, it was made in 1993 but the movie didn't appear outdated and... Full review
"I Hate LA...all they do here is snort coke and talk."
Dec 19, 2006
David H. Schleicher - imdb.com
The many residents of Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" do so much more than that: they lie, cheat, steal, kill, ache, long, burn-out, shine bright, fade in the background, sing, dance, drink, make love, screw, shout, scream, fight, and purge their... Full review
Just Another Drab Film
Oct 22, 2006
shyremare21 - yahoo.com
I don't know the reason why some films has to be so boring and dry. Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time watching a movie because it's not interesting me at all. This film is as drab as I can... Full review
A different kind of L.A. Story
Mar 22, 2005
FilmOtaku - imdb.com
Robert Altman has never shied away from casting every actor known to mankind in his films, and this is certainly true with his 1993 film "Short Cuts", a film set in Los Angeles over the course of a couple of... Full review
They don't get any better than this
Dec 26, 2004
xavier992004 - yahoo.com
Stunning! Brilliantly directed, amazing intertwining (short) storylines, great performances, realistic dialogue, moving, funny, sad, liberating. A true masterpiece! It's loooong but believe me you won't want it to end.... Full review
Altman's greatest?
Sep 18, 2003
David - imdb.com
When Altman is good he's among the greatest, and SHORT CUTS is among his best (M*A*S*H, BREWSTER McCLOUD, NASHVILLE). Adapted from Raymond Carver's collection of stories, SHORT CUTS offers a roving, restless glimpse into the lives of several Los Angelinos.... Full review
Six degrees of separation
May 18, 2002
Casey Machula - imdb.com
In front of a group of fishermen, a waitress bends over for a slab of butter. They take in the image like hungry wolves gulping meat, as her skirt rises high, revealing everything. They like what they see, so they... Full review
Well acted but emotionally lacking
Oct 01, 2001
bob the moo - imdb.com
A classic bit of Altman - the story of cross-cutting lives over several days in LA. Featuring an all-star cast featuring a host of great character actors including Tim Robins, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh to name a few.The performances... Full review

Critics Reviews

| Nov 08, 2009
The New York Times
the form he has chosen mimics so elegantly the boisterous cacophony of a really good Altman movie....his story lacks a big action beat in the first 20 minutes, not to mention a "relatable" hero.....regrets play across his pages with no agenda other than to clarify and illuminate the up-and-down-and-up career of a brilliant, erratic film artist.....bolic approach Altman favored.....to send both the director's admirers and his detractors racing to their DVD shelves to make their cases..... ... Full Review
| Nov 16, 2004
DVD Talk
There's a lot of sex in the film, both wayward and faithful. The talent arrayed here is staggering, and there isn't a poorly cast character in the bunch. ... Full Review
| Nov 16, 2004
PopMatters
Death, or that state beyond natural color, is Short Cuts common denominator. He writes in the Short Cuts book introduction, Somebody wins the lottery. Like ketchup, Short Cuts is an example of America, bottled and beyond natural color. ... Full Review
| Apr 11, 2001
Film.com
April 11, 2001 Part of the miracle of Robert Altman's triumphantly fierce, funny, moving and innovative Short Cuts is that you can't get this movie out of your head. Altman weaves nine Raymond Carver short stories (plus one narrative poem) and 22 principal characters into 189 compulsively watchable minutes that leave you wrung out emotionally but still hungry for more. ... Full Review
| Oct 29, 1993
Austin Chronicle
Narratively, his films are often absurd and Short Cuts is no exception. Short Cuts dips in and out of the different lives of its characters: a waitress and a chauffeur with a drinking problem, a pool cleaning man and his phone sex hostess wife, as it tells its stories. ... Full Review

News

It was the middle of summer and broiling-hot - stifling. The location was a good 40 minutes from the Red Lion Inn, where people were staying. ... Full Article

Short Cuts
tnr.com2009-10-12
Here is your exam question: who is the last American movie director who made thirty-nine films but never won the Oscar for best director? Name the film by that director that cost the most money, and name the film of... ... Full Article

In his film, Short Cuts , Robert Altman uses several techniques to bring the selected short stories of Raymond Carver together into a cohesive film. ... Full Article

I t's easy to see how a filmmaker could read one of Raymond Carver's spare little stories of domesticated males attempting to reassert their primacy and think, Why don't I flesh that out a bit? -and then discover, too late,... ... Full Article

This Australian ensemble drama is a bit like a minor riff on Robert Altman 's Short Cuts. Half-a-dozen people, stricken in some way by a suburban railway accident, are trying to get their lives together again. ... Full Article

Short Cuts on today's generation of new filmmakers: Call it "Car Crashes, Hospitals & Clowns: Cultural Fragmentation and the Robert Altman Mosaic." Altman's 1993 masterpiece has inspired and shaped a generation of directors unlike any other film since, well, Star... ... Full Article

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