Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 08/15/2000
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 160 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
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 politically ambitious country icon Haven Hamilton (
Henry Gibson) and his fragile star protegée Barbara Jean (
Ronee Blakley); Tom (
Keith Carradine), a self-absorbed rock star who woos lonely married gospel singer Linnea Reese (
Lily Tomlin); Sueleen Gay (
Gwen Welles), a talentless waitress painfully humiliated at her first singing gig; Albuquerque (
Barbara Harris), a runaway wife with dreams of stardom; nightclub owner Lady Pearl (
Barbara Baxley), who reminisces about "those Kennedy boys"; single-minded groupie L.A. Joan (
Shelley Duvall); vapid BBC commentator Opal (
Geraldine Chaplin); and campaign guru John Triplette (
Michael Murphy), who is trying to organize a concert rally for the unseen but always heard populist presidential candidate-cum-demagogue Hal Phillip Walker. Everything comes to a head during a climactic concert at Nashville's replica of the Parthenon temple, as the entertainment-hungry audience is momentarily woken out of its stupor by unexpected violence, only to be lulled into a restorative sing-along to "It Don't Worry Me."
~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
;)
