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Release Date:
3 October 1993 (USA)
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From two American masters comes a movie like no other
Plot:
The everyday lives of a number of Los Angeles residents are the subject of this loosely-knitted collection of short stories. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 13 wins
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4 nominations
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(53 articles)
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Six degrees of separation
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Andie MacDowell | ... | Ann Finnigan |
 | Bruce Davison | ... | Howard Finnigan |
 | Jack Lemmon | ... | Paul Finnigan |
 | Zane Cassidy | ... | Casey Finnigan |
 | Julianne Moore | ... | Marian Wyman |
| Matthew Modine | ... | Dr. Ralph Wyman |
 | Anne Archer | ... | Claire Kane |
 | Fred Ward | ... | Stuart Kane |
 | Jennifer Jason Leigh | ... | Lois Kaiser |
 | Chris Penn | ... | Jerry Kaiser |
| Joseph C. Hopkins | ... | Joe Kaiser |
| Josette Maccario | ... | Josette Kaiser |
| Lili Taylor | ... | Honey Bush |
 | Robert Downey Jr. | ... | Bill Bush |
 | Madeleine Stowe | ... | Sherri Shepard |
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MPAA:
Rated R for graphic sexual language, and for nudity
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Runtime:
187 min | Argentina:190 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Stereo |
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
Certification:
Portugal:M/16 |
Norway:15 |
Iceland:16 |
New Zealand:M |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Finland:K-14 |
France:U |
Germany:16 |
Israel:PG |
Singapore:M18 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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Annie Ross and Lori Singer's segment is a Robert Altman invention and has no connection to anything Raymond Carver has written.
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Revealing mistakes: When Doreen hits Casey with her car it is obvious that she doesn't even come close to him (he's at least 10 feet away when he falls).
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Claire Kane:
Oops, excuse me, sweetie. I really like the Wymans, don't you?
Stuart Kane: Who?
Claire Kane: The doctor and his wife, Marian. Ralph, I think his name. You know, the ones from the concert.
Stuart Kane: He seems kind of lofty. You're off to work early, huh?
Claire Kane: Yeah, I got two Birthdays today. He's a doctor, remember? And she is artist, I think.
Stuart Kane: Oh yeah? What kind?
Claire Kane: What kind? She's a painter. She paints pictures, you know? They really want us to come to dinner.
Stuart Kane: Well, We'll see. I'm off.
Claire Kane: What does that mean? We already agreed to go. We made a date. Bye. Close the door, Stuart.
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Stuart Kane: Who?
Claire Kane: The doctor and his wife, Marian. Ralph, I think his name. You know, the ones from the concert.
Stuart Kane: He seems kind of lofty. You're off to work early, huh?
Claire Kane: Yeah, I got two Birthdays today. He's a doctor, remember? And she is artist, I think.
Stuart Kane: Oh yeah? What kind?
Claire Kane: What kind? She's a painter. She paints pictures, you know? They really want us to come to dinner.
Stuart Kane: Well, We'll see. I'm off.
Claire Kane: What does that mean? We already agreed to go. We made a date. Bye. Close the door, Stuart.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)
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Soundtrack:
I Don't Want To Cry Anymore
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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 ask her, `Can we have more butter, please?' The double meaning is obvious.
In a nightclub, a singer languishes over a sultry little song about `a good, punishing kiss.' The conversation in the foreground -- ex-cons relating cruel, violent stories from prison -- moves to the rhythm of the jazz saxophone, a dissonant snare-drum-prose accompaniment to the song. It's a deliberate ambiguity that binds the viewer in the scene's artistic tension.
In an upscale home with a breathtaking view of the city of angels, a struggling artist is being questioned about her relationship with another artist. She's naked from the waist down, suggesting both sexual aggressiveness, and vulnerability, simultaneously. She's seductively defiant with her husband. She confesses to an affair; but she does so angrily, indignant for being asked. It's sweet and sour, light and dark, truthful but deceptive, all at once. More double entendres.
Robert Altman's Short Cuts weaves all these disconnected scenes together like common strands of rope. It's the interplay of opposites that firmly holds them all together. The title itself, `Short Cuts,' has dual meaning: it's an interconnected mixture of `short cuts,' as in `off the cutting room floor' or `film clips;' and, it's an unmistakable reference to the web of human life, the social short cuts between ourselves and everyone else, as in the famous `six degrees of separation,' which tells us that we are only six personal relationships away from everyone else in the world. Set in LA, this idea makes for a lovely irony: although the main characters are completely absorbed in their individual worlds, they are intimately connected to each other. They just don't know it.
Short Cuts is one of Altman's masterpieces. See it if you can.