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Released
1993 · FILM

Short Cuts

In Los Angeles, the everyday lives of dozens of strangers unexpectedly intertwine—through accidents, confessions, and mundane crises—forcing each to face hidden desires and looming consequences.

“From two American masters comes a movie like no other”

Directed by
Robert Altman
Written by
Raymond Carver, Robert Altman
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
188 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

In this film, loosely connected characters cross paths, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Suzy ElmigerShot by Walt LloydScored by Mark IshamDesigned by Stephen Altman

Box Office

1993 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$6.1M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$6.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Vidas cruzadases
  • America oggiit

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