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3 Women is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Altman released in USA on 10 april 1977 with Shelley Duvall

3 Women (1977)

3 Women
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Released in USA 10 april 1977
Length 2h4
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller
Rating76% 3.845433.845433.845433.845433.84543

3 Women is a 1977 American film written and directed by Robert Altman, and starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule.

It depicts the increasingly bizarre, mysterious relationship between a woman (Duvall) and her roommate and co-worker (Spacek) in a dusty, underpopulated Californian town. The story came directly from a dream Altman had, which he did not fully understand but nonetheless adapted into a treatment, intending to film without a script. 20th Century Fox financed the project on the basis of Altman's reputation. A script was completed before filming, although, as with most Altman films, the script was preliminary for what emerged during production.

Roger Ebert named 3 Women the best film of 1977.

For 27 years, the film was unavailable on home video. It gained the reputation of a cult film after frequent broadcasts on television in the 1980s and 1990s. The film was finally released on DVD in 2004 by The Criterion Collection, with a feature-length commentary by Altman. In 2011, it was released on Blu-ray, also by Criterion.

Synopsis

Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), a timid and awkward young woman, begins a job at a health spa for the elderly in a small California desert town. There, she becomes enamored of Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall), a confident and talkative employee. Both natives of Texas, the two begin to develop a friendship and, in spite of their stark personality differences, decide to become roommates. Pinky moves in with Millie at the Purple Sage Apartments, owned by a has-been cowboy, Edgar Hart, and his wife Willie (Janice Rule), a mysterious pregnant woman who paints striking and unsettling murals.

Actors

Shelley Duvall

(Mildred "Millie" Lammoreaux)
Sissy Spacek

(Mildred "Pinky" Rose)
Janice Rule

(Willie Hart)
Ruth Nelson

(Mrs. Rose)
Ruth Nelson

(Mrs. Rose)
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