Short Cuts (1993)

R10/01/1993Drama, Comedy3h 8m
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From two American masters comes a movie like no other

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Andie MacDowell

    Ann Finnigan

  2. Cast 1

    Bruce Davison

    Howard Finnigan

  3. Cast 1

    Jack Lemmon

    Paul Finnigan

  4. Cast 1

    Tim Robbins

    Gene Shepard

  5. Cast 1

    Julianne Moore

    Marian Wyman

  6. Cast 1

    Tom Waits

    Earl Piggot

  7. Cast 1

    Lily Tomlin

    Doreen Piggot

  8. Cast 1

    Fred Ward

    Stuart Kane

  9. Cast 1

    Chris Penn

    Jerry Kaiser

**A huge cast full of familiar names, where each one does their job very well… but without commitment, without emotion and under a script so intricate that it leaves anyone lost.** I'm usually very critical of movies with bad or weak scripts. It's a recurring problem in cinema. This film, however, makes the opposite mistake: the script is excessive, it has so many characters and so many interconnected sub-plots that it is almost necessary to make diagrams and schemes on a board to be able to follow what is happening. I got almost halfway through the movie and I didn't really know who was wh...