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Short Cuts (1993)

Rate: 8
Viewed: 5/18

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5/18: I got to give it to Robert Altman for making something out of nothing in Short Cuts.

There are many parallel stories, nine in total, which are interesting to follow, and even better is the strong cast which includes Tim Robbins, Matthew Modine, Fred Ward, Anne Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Davison, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Chris Penn, Jack Lemmon, Frances McDormand, Lori Singer, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Alex Trebek, and Lyle Lovett, among others.

Of the ensemble, Jennifer Jason Leigh plays the most interesting character because there's something decidedly cold and detached in what she does for a living. That much is reflected by Chris Penn's facial reactions. Leigh's phone sex conversations were line-for-line of the calls she heard during her research.

All in all, Short Cuts is all over the map, but I have to give Robert Altman credit for keeping me absorbed by various characters, who are often real, for three straight hours.