Direction: Robert Altman

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

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

Synopsis 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 host each week. Many of the SNL players have spun...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis Short Cuts (1993) weaves together the intersecting lives of 22 Los Angeles residents over a few days, blending humor, tragedy, and mundane reality. Directed by Robert Altman, the film explores themes of love, infidelity, mortality, and chance encounters. From a...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 model in fellow nurse "Thoroughly Modern" Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall),...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 virtually every famous actor in Hollywood to create an exhilarating...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis M.A.S.H. (1970) follows a group of irreverent surgeons and staff stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. Amid the chaos of war, they use humor, pranks, and camaraderie to cope with the horrors they witness daily....

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 their investigation into Lennox's subsequent disappearance. Once he gets out...

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

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

Synopsis 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 show offered character studies of men striving to maintain their...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to use...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 at a big society wedding marrying old money with new,...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis Gosford Park (2001) is a sophisticated ensemble drama set in 1932 England, blending mystery and social commentary. The story unfolds during a weekend hunting party at a wealthy aristocrat's country estate, where a diverse group of guests and servants gather....

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Sandy Dennis · Cher · Karen Black · Kathy Bates

Synopsis 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 which Giant was filmed. They experience a day full of...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis 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 TV setup, the portraits on the walls, a bottle of...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 other things. He doesn't pay much attention to his wife's...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 at the Hey Hey Club, she lauches a desperate plan...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 she's in. She asks her boyfriend Stan to marry her...

Direction Robert Altman

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

Synopsis 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 family, and rearranges the evidence to seem like murder. The...