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Release Date: Jan 04, 2002; Limited Release: Dec 26, 2001; Rated: R; Length: 137 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Bob Balaban, Stephen Fry, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Kelly Macdonald... See More
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Grandly entertaining. Robert Altman, in his elegantly topsy-turvy Masterpiece Theatre movie, takes a puckish pleasure in reshuffling the worlds of upstairs and downstairs. We're in a remote English mansion in 1932, where the crusty, lecherous Sir William (Michael Gambon) is playing host to a shooting party. Each of the many guests shows up with a servant in attendance, and Altman employs his fluid, sprawling, multicharacter style as an implicit wry commentary on the class system, which is that you can't separate it into parts. The cast is so prestige-packed it's almost funny; standing out from the crowd are the dainty megalomania of Maggie Smith and the walking-on-air charm of Jeremy Northam.
Posted Jan 25, 2002
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- Photo Gallery Honoring Robert Altman: His 10 finest films (Jun 09, 2006) | Gary Susman
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