Overview - Short Cuts

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama
  • Comedy

Runtime: 188 minutes

Homepage: Short Cuts

Budget

$12,000,000.00

Revenue

$6,110,979.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Fine Line Features

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Spelling Entertainment

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Avenue Entertainment

    Production country

Overview

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, 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.

Cast

  • Name: Andie MacDowell

    Character: Ann Finnigan

    Popularity: 1.758

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  • Name: Bruce Davison

    Character: Howard Finnigan

    Popularity: 5.0918

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  • Name: Jack Lemmon

    Character: Paul Finnigan

    Popularity: 2.4395

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  • Name: Tim Robbins

    Character: Gene Shepard

    Popularity: 7.5759

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  • Name: Julianne Moore

    Character: Marian Wyman

    Popularity: 3.2478

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  • Name: Tom Waits

    Character: Earl Piggot

    Popularity: 1.3826

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  • Name: Lily Tomlin

    Character: Doreen Piggot

    Popularity: 0.5175

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  • Name: Fred Ward

    Character: Stuart Kane

    Popularity: 2.6086

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