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Kansas City

1996

Robert Altman

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Harry Belafonte, Miranda Richardson, Dermot Mulroney ...

6.3

1,063

Drama. Thriller Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held at the Hey Hey Club, she lauches a desperate plan to release him. She kidnaps the wife of a powerful local politician in an attempt to blackmail him into using his connections to free Johnny. Despite this being election time, he risks exposure by ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Altman's] originality and invention pay off in 'Kansas City' (...) The film does a good job of re-creating the period (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"For all its roistering energy, 'Kansas City' is too mannered a film to sink under the skin like 'Nashville' or the best parts of 'Short Cuts'."
		Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"[Belafonte's] performance, along with Richardson's zoned-out society lady, the abundance of superbly performed jazz and the evocative production design of Stephen Altman, the director's son, are the reasons to see 'Kansas City'"
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"A sadly ordinary motion picture (...) Even with Altman at the helm, however, it manages to be singularly unremarkable (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Budd Wilkins Slant	"A modest, yet equally incisive, companion piece [to 'Nashville'] (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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