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Mood:
- AtmosphericBleakGloomyTouchingContemplativeOffbeat
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- Mysterious CharacterHuman NatureUnfulfilled LoveUnfulfillmentProstituteDown on Your LuckLife is a BitchLove and Romance more...
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Genres:
- DramaPeriodWesternMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 19th CenturyOld West
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- USAWashingtonSmall TownWildernessMine
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- Based on Book
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- Folk
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- Brief NudityDrugs/AlcoholViolent Content
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 1971
English
USA
Profile of McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller can be described as bleak, gloomy, and atmospheric. The plot revolves around a mysterious character, unfulfilled love, and human nature. 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. It is set, at least in part, in the wilderness, in a small town, and in a mine. McCabe & Mrs. Miller is located in Washington. It takes place in the Old West and in the 19th century. The soundtrack is folk. McCabe & Mrs. Miller is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a classic, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed. Note that it 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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