Short Cuts

1993 · 188 min · EN · R · 7.2 (723 votes)

Dir. Robert Altman · Starring Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Tom Waits · Music Mark Isham

“From two American masters comes a movie like no other”

DramaComedy

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

VIBE

A sprawling, melancholic tapestry of interconnected lives in Los Angeles. It feels like eavesdropping on strangers, a poignant, unsettling look at everyday struggles and quiet desperation. The city hums with a restless, jazz-infused energy.

melancholicwryunsettlingpoignantsteadyensemble dramaslice-of-lifecharacter studynaturalisticdisconnectionfatelossurban alienation

suicidehelicoptercheatingloss of loved onefishingjazz singer or musicianmodern societycellistearthquakelos angeles, californiahit by a carmultiple storylines