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Nashville

  • 19751975
  • RR
  • 2h 40m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
27K
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Nashville (1975)
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Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
27K
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    • Robert Altman
    • Joan Tewkesbury
  • Stars
    • Keith Carradine
    • Karen Black
    • Ronee Blakley
    • Robert Altman
    • Joan Tewkesbury
  • Stars
    • Keith Carradine
    • Karen Black
    • Ronee Blakley
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 197User reviews
    • 111Critic reviews
    • 96Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar

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    Lily Tomlin in Nashville (1975)
    Keith Carradine and Cristina Raines in Nashville (1975)
    Karen Black in Nashville (1975)
    Henry Gibson in Nashville (1975)
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    Shelley Duvall and Ronee Blakley in Nashville (1975)
    Nashville (1975)
    Nashville (1975)
    Henry Gibson and Ronee Blakley in Nashville (1975)
    Gwen Welles in Nashville (1975)
    Lily Tomlin in Nashville (1975)

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    Keith Carradine
    Keith Carradine
    • Tom Frank
    Karen Black
    Karen Black
    • Connie White
    Ronee Blakley
    Ronee Blakley
    • Barbara Jean
    Shelley Duvall
    Shelley Duvall
    • L. A. Joan
    David Arkin
    David Arkin
    • Norman
    Barbara Baxley
    Barbara Baxley
    • Lady Pearl
    Ned Beatty
    Ned Beatty
    • Delbert Reese
    Timothy Brown
    Timothy Brown
    • Tommy Brown
    Geraldine Chaplin
    Geraldine Chaplin
    • Opal
    Robert DoQui
    Robert DoQui
    • Wade
    • (as Robert Doqui)
    Allen Garfield
    Allen Garfield
    • Barnett
    Henry Gibson
    Henry Gibson
    • Haven Hamilton
    Scott Glenn
    Scott Glenn
    • Pfc. Glenn Kelly
    Jeff Goldblum
    Jeff Goldblum
    • Tricycle Man
    Barbara Harris
    Barbara Harris
    • Albuquerque
    David Hayward
    David Hayward
    • Kenny Fraiser
    Michael Murphy
    Michael Murphy
    • John Triplette
    Allan F. Nicholls
    Allan F. Nicholls
    • Bill
    • (as Allan Nicholls)
      • Robert Altman
      • Joan Tewkesbury
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The film was very much improvised by the actors and actresses, who used the screenplay only as a guide. They spent a great amount of their time in character, and the movie was shot almost entirely in sequence.
    • Goofs
      When attempting to interview Tommy Brown, Opal says that she is from the BBC. When questioned, she explains that this stands for the British Broadcasting Company. It actually stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation. This was intentionally done to insinuate that Opal doesn't actually work for the BBC and was an impostor. Geraldine Chaplin confirmed this in a 2000 interview in Premiere magazine.
    • Quotes

      Hal Phillip Walker: Who do you think is running Congress? Farmers? Engineers? Teachers? Businessmen? No, my friends. Congress is run by lawyers. A lawyer is trained for two things and two things only. To clarify - that's one. And to confuse - that's the other thing. He does whichever is to his client's advantage. Did you ever ask a lawyer the time of day? He told you how to make a watch, didn't he? Ever ask a lawyer how to get to Mr. Jones' house in the country? You got lost, didn't you? Congress is composed of five hundred and thirty-five individuals. Two hundred and eighty-eight are lawyers. And you wonder what's wrong in Congress? No wonder we often know how to make a watch, but we don't know - the time of day.

    • Crazy credits
      The opening credits are modeled after a 1970s era TV commercial for a "greatest hits" record album compilation, with the actors in the film announced by a DJ as if they were artists whose songs were featured on the album.
    • Connections
      Featured in Precious Images (1986)
    • Soundtracks
      It Don't Worry Me
      Music and Lyrics by Keith Carradine

      Performed by Barbara Harris

      Lions Gate Music Co. / Easy Music (ASCAP)

    User reviews197

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    10/10
    Altman's Masterpiece: "The Damnedest Thing You Ever Saw"
    Robert Altman is an extremely divisive director in the sense that you either "get it" or you don't--and those who don't despise his work and take considerable pleasure in sneering at NASHVILLE in particular. But there is no way around the fact that it is an important film, a highly influential film, to most Altman fans his finest films, and to most series critics quite possibly the single finest film made during the whole of the 1970s.

    According to the movie trailer available on the DVD release, NASHVILLE is "the damnedest thing you ever saw"--and a truer thing was never said, for it is one of those rare film that completely defies description. On one level, the film follows the lives of some twenty characters over the course of several days leading up to a political rally, lives that collide or don't collide, that have moments of success and failure, and which in the process explore the hypocrisy that we try to sweep away under the rug of American culture. If it were merely that, the film would be so much soap-opera, but it goes quite a bit further: it juxtaposes its observations with images of American patriotism and politics at their most vulgar, and in the process it makes an incredibly funny, incredibly sad, and remarkably savage statement on the superficial values that plague our society.

    What most viewers find difficult about NASHVILLE--and about many Altman films--is his refusal to direct our attention within any single scene. Conversations and plot directions overlap with each other, and so much goes on in every scene that you are constantly forced to decide what you will pay attention to and what you will ignore. The result is a film that goes in a hundred different directions with a thousand different meanings, and it would be safe to say that every person who sees it will see a different film.

    In the end, however, all these roads lead to Rome, or in this case to the Roman coliseum of American politics, where fame is gained or lost in the wake of violence, where the strong consume the weak without any real personal malice, and where the current political star is only as good as press agent's presentation. For those willing and able to dive into the complex web of life it presents, Altman's masterpiece will be an endlessly fascinating mirror in which we see the energy of life itself scattered, gathered, and reflected back to us. A masterpiece that bears repeated viewings much in the same way that a great novel bears repeated readings. A personal favorite and highly, highly recommended.

    Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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    • May 21, 2005

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    • Release date
      • July 1975 (Canada)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    • Production companies
      • ABC Entertainment
      • American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • 2 hours 40 minutes
      • Color

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