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- Human NatureAmericanaSocietyMysterious CharacterProstituteUnfulfilled LoveCrimesDishonesty more...
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- DramaPeriodWesternMelodrama
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- 19th CenturyOld West
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- USAWashingtonSmall Town
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 1971
English
USA
Profile of McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller can be described as bleak, atmospheric, and clever. The plot revolves around Americana, human nature, and society. The main genres are drama, period, and western. In terms of style, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. McCabe & Mrs. Miller is set, at least in part, in a small town. It is located in Washington. It takes place in the Old West and in the 19th century. The soundtrack of McCabe & Mrs. Miller is folk. It is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a classic, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed. Note that McCabe & Mrs. Miller involves brief nudity, drugs/alcohol, and violent content.
Summary of McCabe & Mrs. Miller
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 about love and the pursuit of wealth in 19th-century America.
John McCabe (Warren Beatty), a determined businessman with a mysterious past, settles in the small Northwestern town of Presbyterian Church and opens up a saloon and brothel. Soon after, the brothel's madam, an Englishwoman named Constance Miller (Julie Christie), arrives and forms a partnership with McCabe in order to manage the brothel's business affairs. McCabe 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 personal sorrows. After a powerful company arrives and offers to buy out McCabe's property, his stubborn refusal ends up jeopardizing his life, resulting in a showdown with three hired killers in the middle of a freak blizzard. Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond's faded imagery-purposely manipulated by "flashing" the film stock before shooting--along with production designer Leon Ericksen's authentically created town, brings to life a past world that is tinged with an underlying sadness, a feeling that is heightened by Leonard Cohen's melancholy soundtrack. Beatty, as the lovesick McCabe, and Christie, who was nominated for an Oscar as the hard-nosed Mrs. Miller, deliver heartfelt and convincing performances.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 24 June 1971 |
| Runtime: | 120 min |
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as John McCabe
as Constance Miller
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