IMDb plot summary: A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Directed by Robert Altman. Starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, and William Devane.
Robert Altman's movies are... not easy for me to get into. They tend to be slice-of-life almost aggressively, daring me to make the connections between the tiny bits of everyday mundanity and form a larger narrative. I struggle to find the overarching story in these films where almost nothing is coded to be more important than anything else, and that is definitely the case here. When the final "showdown" happens, it's so downplayed that I was never sure the climax has actually happened. There's nothing really bad about this movie, but it's all so underwhelming that it doesn't really connect with me at all.
2 stars.
How it entered my Flickchart:
McCabe & Mrs. Miller < Lord of War
McCabe & Mrs. Miller > Sleeper
McCabe & Mrs. Miller > Graveyard of Honor (1975)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller < The Big Sleep
McCabe & Mrs. Miller < Man Hunt
McCabe & Mrs. Miller < The Love Witch
McCabe & Mrs. Miller < The Girl with Dragon Tattoo (2009)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller < Crank
McCabe & Mrs. Miller < A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
McCabe & Mrs. Miller > Neverwas
McCabe & Mrs. Miller > Sixteen Candles
McCabe & Mrs. Miller < Fifth of July
Final spot: #1748 out of 2804.
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