Direction: Robert Altman

Direction Lorne Michaels · Dick Ebersol · Dave Wilson · Beth McCarthy-Miller

Cast Kevin Nealon · Horatio Sanz · Will Forte · Phil Hartman

Plot TV Series (1975-Present). "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" A late-night comedy show featuring several short skits, parodies of television commercials, a live guest band, and a pop-cultural guest...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Madeleine Stowe · Julianne Moore · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Tim Robbins

Plot Robert Altman interweaves the different everyday stories of Los Angeles who are seemingly unconnected to each other. Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Sissy Spacek · Shelley Duvall · Janice Rule · Ruth Nelson

Plot In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Ronee Blakley · Geraldine Chaplin · Barbara Harris · Keith Carradine

Plot Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Tim Robbins · Greta Scacchi · Dina Merrill · Whoopi Goldberg

Plot Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Donald Sutherland · Elliott Gould · Tom Skerritt · Sally Kellerman

Plot November, 1951. The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is shaken up by the arrival of Captains Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest...crack surgeons but lousy soldiers. Joined by renowned chest-cutter Trapper...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Elliott Gould · Sterling Hayden · Nina Van Pallandt · Mark Rydell

Plot Private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) isn't a wife-killer, even after the cops throw Marlowe in jail for not cooperating with...

Direction Bernard McEveety · John Peyser · Sutton Roley · Michael Caffey

Cast Vic Morrow · Rick Jason · Pierre Jalbert · Jack Hogan

Plot TV Series (1962-1967). 152 episodes. Combat!, a one-hour WWII drama series on television, followed a frontline American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe. With mud-splattered realism, the...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Sandy Dennis · Michael Burns · Susanne Benton · David Garfield

Plot A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Warren Beatty · Julie Christie · Rene Auberjonois · William Devane

Plot Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Carol Burnett · Paul Dooley · Amy Stryker · Mia Farrow

Plot Altman returns to the narrative strategy of Nashville, using a massive cast and a complex web of subplots to probe the flaws and fissures in modern America as made evident...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Kelly MacDonald · Emily Watson · Maggie Smith · Alan Bates

Plot GOSFORD PARK explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines. In November 1932, a phalanx of moneyed guests arrives...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Sandy Dennis · Cher · Karen Black · Kathy Bates

Plot It tells the story of a group of women, all members of a James Dean fan club, who meet on the anniversary of his death in the small town in...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Philip Baker Hall

Plot In this speculative one-man drama, we see former President Richard Milhous Nixon alone in his study, dictating his thoughts into a tape recorder. His only company are a four-screen closed-circuit...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Susannah York · Rene Auberjonois · Marcel Bozzuffi · Hugh Millais

Plot A man and his wife visit their weekend cottage located in a scenic but isolated corner of the countrytside. The man is in good spirits but has his mind on...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Elliott Gould · George Segal · Ann Prentiss · Gwen Welles

Plot A down on his luck gambler (George Seagal) links up with free spirit Elliot Gould at first to have some fun on, but then gets into debt when Gould takes...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Jennifer Jason Leigh · Harry Belafonte · Miranda Richardson · Dermot Mulroney

Plot Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Bud Cort · Sally Kellerman · Michael Murphy · Shelley Duvall

Plot Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Carol Lynley · Vince Edwards · Stephen Joyce · Jeanette Nolan

Plot Janice is a beautiful 17 year old who longs to be free from the influence of her guardian Aunt May. She also wants to get out of the small town...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Glenn Close · Julianne Moore · Liv Tyler · Chris O'Donnell

Plot In a small Mississippi town, Cookie Orcutt discreetly kills herself in order to join her late husband. But her uptight daughter can't stand the idea of a suicide in the...