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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Altman’s earlier ensemble mosaic shares Short Cuts’ roaming camera, overlapping talk, darkly comic social observation, and a large cast whose private crises gradually form a restless portrait of a place.
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Why this pick
A sprawling, emotionally volatile network of Los Angeles lives, built from coincidence, damaged intimacy, and virtuoso ensemble momentum; it carries Short Cuts’ blend of mordant humor and sudden rawness.
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Why this pick
Its suburban web of lonely, compromised people pushes the uncomfortable comedy and emotional exposure found in Short Cuts into more deadpan, deliberately abrasive territory.
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Why this pick
A wintry suburban ensemble study of marriage, desire, and family disconnection, with the same unsentimental attention to ordinary people making quietly ruinous choices.
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Why this pick
Its fractured chronology and interconnected community reveal how private grief reshapes public life, offering Short Cuts’ mosaic construction in a more hushed, mournful register.
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01 / THE STORY
A fleet of helicopters sprays for medfly and reveals all the characters along the path of their flight. Dr. Ralph Wyman (Matthew Modine) and his wife, Marian (Julianne Moore), meet another couple, Stuart (Fred Ward) and Claire Kane (Anne Archer) - an out-of-work salesman and a party clown respectively - at Zoe Trainer's (Lori Singer) cello concert and make a spontaneous Sunday dinner date. Marian's sister, Sherri (Madeleine Stowe), is married to philandering cop Gene (Tim Robbins), who invents unbelievable stories to hide his affair with Betty Weathers (Frances McDormand). Betty is in the process of divorcing one of the helicopter pilots, Stormy (Peter Gallagher). Waitress Doreen Piggot (Lily Tomlin) is married to an alcoholic limo driver, Earl (Tom Waits). Television commentator Howard Finnigan (Bruce Davison) lives with his wife, Anne (Andie MacDowell), and their young son, Casey (Zane Cassidy), next door to Zoe and her mother, cabaret singer Tess (Annie Ross). Their pool cleaner is Jerry Kaiser (Chris Penn), whose wife, Lois (Jennifer Jason Leigh), works from home as a phone sex operator, tending to the children while she talks off strange men. Jerry and Lois are friends with Doreen's daughter, Honey (Lili Taylor), and her husband, Bill (Robert Downey Jr.), who works as a makeup artist.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Ann Finnigan
Paul Finnigan
Claire Kane
Casey Finnigan
Stuart Kane
Lois Kaiser
Jerry Kaiser
Honey Bush
