McCabe And Mrs Miller

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A haunting, poetic anti-Western based on the 1959 novel by Edmund Naughton, Robert Altman's MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER is a deeply moving motion picture concerning love and the pursuit of wealth in early America. John McCabe (Warren Beatty), a determined businessman with a mysterious past, settles in Presbyterian Church, a small Northwestern town, and opens up a saloon and a brothel. Soon after, the English head madame, Constance Miller (Julie Christie) arrives and forms a partnership with McCabe in order to manage the brothel's business affairs. McCabe soon has trouble expressing his true feelings to Mrs. Miller, with whom he has fallen in love; she, in turn, relies on opium to distract her from her own personal sorrows. After a powerful company arrives and offers to buy out McCabe's property, his stubborn refusal ends up jeopardising his life, resulting in a showdown with three hired killers in the middle of a freak blizzard.

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Release:

2003

Running Time:

116 min

Certificate:

Suitable only for 15 years and over

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Genre:

Drama

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Director:

Robert Altman

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andy vortenhaus
depressing but brilliant
06 December 2008
Mccabe and Mrs. Miller was Robert Altman's follow-up to the critical and commercial success MASH. This film is as light-years away from MASH as you can possibly get, which may explain why it never became as popular as the black comedy MASH was. There are no crowd pleasing scenes, there is nothing particularly attractive about any of the characters (with the exception of Julie Christie, who looks stunning only AFTER she hits the opium pipe, perhaps a conscious decision on Altman's part), and the ending is downright depressing. There is no absolute way to summarize the movie and its plot, for you bring away what you take from it. In its context, I think Mccabe and Mrs. Miller was the case of a talented filmmaker attempting to make a comment about American society as the 60's was coming to an end and the 70's were coming into full circle.
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