Short Cuts

Short Cuts

Short Cuts raises the roof on America.

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Release Date

10/1/1993

Runtime

188 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$12,000,000

Revenue

$6,110,979

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A sprawling, intricately woven portrait of Los Angeles life where mundane moments and small cruelties accumulate into profound moral weight. Robert Altman orchestrates dozens of overlapping lives with remarkable precision, creating a film that feels simultaneously intimate and vast.

Mood

MelancholicBittersweetContemplativeUnsettling

Themes

GriefFamilyMortalityIsolation

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Ensemble

Heads up

Suicide and self-harmSexual content

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