Short Cuts (1994)

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Studio: Fine Line Features
Rating: R
Release Date: Mar 15, 1994
Running Time: 189 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Episodic narrative based on nine short stories and one poem by the late Raymond Carver, detailing the longings and thwarted lives of a disparate group of individuals in contemporary Southern California.
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Ann Finnigan
Howard Finnigan
Paul Finnigan
Casey Finnigan
Marian Wyman
Dr Ralph Wyman
Claire Kane
Stuart Kane
Lois Kaiser
Jerry Kaiser
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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. You keep playing it back to savor its formula-smashing audacity, its peerless performances and its cleareyed view of blasted lives. 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. Another key… Continued