Short Cuts
1993
****½
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Tim Robbins, Andie MacDowell, Chris Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anne Archer, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Bruce Davison, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Fred Ward, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Frances McDormand
Robert Altman makes a return to the style of his influential Nashville with another tapestry of intertwining lives set in Los Angeles. This is a long but wonderfully crafted film, based on Robert Carver's short stories that revolve around coincidence, infidelity, and death. The cast is amazing on paper and on screen. Altman's work had a massive influence on everything-is-connected films like Crash and Magnolia.
