Overview - Short Cuts

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: 2.8454

  

• Name: Bruce Davison

  Character: Howard Finnigan

  Popularity: 1.6236

  

• Name: Jack Lemmon

  Character: Paul Finnigan

  Popularity: 1.8488

  

• Name: Tim Robbins

  Character: Gene Shepard

  Popularity: 2.69

  

• Name: Julianne Moore

  Character: Marian Wyman

  Popularity: 5.5003

  

• Name: Tom Waits

  Character: Earl Piggot

  Popularity: 0.8551

  

• Name: Lily Tomlin

  Character: Doreen Piggot

  Popularity: 1.3327

  

• Name: Fred Ward

  Character: Stuart Kane

  Popularity: 1.4888