Fresh
Altman loves to explode movie genres, and his script, co-written with Frank Barhydt, fuses the classic '30s screwball comedy and crime film.
Jack Kroll, Newsweek
Kansas City
Kansas City, 1934. Anything could happen here. One night it did.
1996 · 1h 56m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Robert Altman
Overview
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
Director and cast
- Robert Altman Director
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Blondie O'Hara
- Miranda Richardson as Carolyn Stilton
- Harry Belafonte as Seldom Seen
- Michael Murphy as Henry Stilton
- Dermot Mulroney as Johnny O'Hara
- Steve Buscemi as Johnny Flynn
- Brooke Smith as Babe Flynn
- Jane Adams as Nettie Bolt
- Jeff Feringa as Addie Parker
- A.C. Smith as Sheepshan Red
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It could never for an instant be mistaken for anything but a Robert Altman film, and that counts for a lot.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson are synergetic perfection as social opposites thrown together for 24 hours in a 1934 hot town.
Mike Clark, USA Today
Rotten
A sadly ordinary motion picture, and, in less sure hands, it might have been something of an unfortunate mess. Even with Altman at the helm, however, it manages to be singularly unremarkable.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
Would someone throw a net over Jennifer Jason Leigh? She's at it again.
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
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