With: Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher
Plot: Three criminals unite for a bank-robbing spree, the youngest (Carradine) falling in love with a girl from their hideout (Duvall), the other two facing different lives when all three become the most wanted thieves in Mississippi.
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Like so many Altman films, a lot of time is spent watching this wandering what genre it fits into, I settled on doomed romance. Carradine and Duvall are both excellent as the couple so in love but so clearly wrong for each other, who form the film's only really notable story arc, as the ruminations of the other two, one happy and in love, the other a glory-chasing alcoholic are slotted in almost randomly to create an approximation of real life. Altman's matter-of-fact handling of the robberies keeps the film from falling into overtly dramatic territory, the whole thing coming off as a bittersweet slice of 1930s life. Charming and affecting.
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