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A very happy marriage between Altman in panoramic Nashville mode and
Raymond Carver's perfect, pointed short stories. Altman
particularly nails the understatement in "A Small, Good
Thing", about a cake, a death, and an irate baker, as do Bruce
Davison and - startlingly - Andie MacDowell as grieving parents. Other
small, good things: Jennifer Jason Leigh joylessly working a phone sex
line, Tim Robbins' philandering cop deliberately losing the family
dog. The director's own addition to these loosely linked vignettes,
with Annie Ross and Lori Singer as feuding mother/daughter musicians,
misses the mark, but the rest is incredibly good – on LA, on everything.
Tim Robey
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