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Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Andie MacDowell and Tim Robbins
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

SHORT CUTS (R) Director Robert Altman working at the transcendent peak of his powers. Freely adapted from nine short stories and one poem by the late Raymond Carver, this 3-hour-and-7-minute epic about a pack of wayward, boisterous, spiritually hungry characters in contemporary suburban Los Angeles is tremendous fun to watch-it's as jam-packed with eccentric human drama as the wildest soap opera-yet what's most extraordinary about it is how many of its scenes hit us with the intimate force of revelation. Short Cuts lacks the exultant highs of Altman's Nashville; its tone is darker, more somberly controlled. Yet even when the characters are in emotional tatters, they're thrillingly alive. A ( 190, Oct. 1) -OG


Posted Oct 08, 1993
 

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