Nashville

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Nashville

R

1975

2h 37m

Comedy

Drama

Musical

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In this acclaimed Robert Altman drama, the lives of numerous people in the Tennessee capital intersect in unpredictable ways. Delbert Reese (Ned Beatty) is a lawyer and political organizer who is having difficulties in his marriage to Linnea (Lily Tomlin), a gospel vocalist. Other performers heavily featured in this renowned ensemble production include country singers Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley) and Connie White (Karen Black), who are rivals in the city's thriving music scene.

Critics Consensus

Robert Altman captures the bravado and cynicism of the American dream in Nashville, a sprawling epic bursting with vivid performances and an unforgettable soundtrack.

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Will Jones

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Mar 5

Nashville is the damnedest thing you ever saw since M-A-S-H was the damnedest thing you ever saw. Altman comes the closest he has ever come to challenging his older masterpiece.

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Judith Crist

New York Magazine/Vulture

02/27/2025

This is the deep probe into the American malaise, the film that should be required viewing before we consider "celebration" of a bicentennial. Almost incidentally, it is one of the great American movies.

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Bob Lundegaard

Minneapolis Star Tribune

02/27/2025

There is almost no plot, as such, but Altman's command is so sure that the two-and-a-half hours race by. And more than any recent film, this one repays a second visit, so subtly and carefully has Altman constructed his multiple plots.

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Steve Hogner

Austin American-Statesman

Mar 5

It is to American film what William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" is to American literature -- an epic definitive statement of the natural undercurrents shaping this nation.

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Ciaran Carty

Sunday Independent (Ireland)

Mar 5

Nobody need bother making a movie to mark the bicentennial of American independence. Robert Altman has already done so with Nashville... It will probably come to be accepted as the definitive American movie of all time.

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Mary MacGoris

Irish Independent

Mar 5

We've had all the phoniness of American elections before, better done, and if we don't know all about the hollow glamour of stardom, achieved or aspiring, it's not for want of telling.

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Kyle M

@RT77296778 Apr 29

Robert Altman’s magnum opus at his most defining by humanistic visionary scope is considerably average when his signature loose grasp on the thematically ranging characterization gets livened by prompted authenticity amongst the ensemble cast to flex their talents onto the country music platform with disjointed yet engaging results that attributes to neatly satirizing the nation in worthwhile ponder. (B)

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MC B

@RT23450091 Feb 26

Boring storyline and no ending. Skip it.

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rex w

@RT11010153 Feb 8

For the first 90 minutes, Nashville is a masterpiece with great performance, lots of humor, and a sense of what it was like living in American in the 70s. But it peters out by the end. It has a few too many songs, and a climatic scene that's extremely unrealistic.

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Mickey B.

@Mickerdoo Jan 18

Liked natural feeling dialogue and 70s slice of life. Didn’t like the ending tonal shift or full country songs without plot progression.

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캣 Famme Fatale Cat 팜

@famfacat Jan 18

병든 토양 위에 고집스레 세운 아테네. 바람이 불고 새는 날기에 당장의 뜨거운 마음 달래줄 선율 하나만 있다면야. 기괴하고 일그러진 추악한 군상이 너무도 아름다운 노래와 빛 아래 있다. 군상극의 시초급이라 의미가 깊다. 251025 (3.2)

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tucker s

@tucker83014 Jan 11

This is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever produced. The fact it currently has high ratings on rotten tomatoes is testament to the sanctimonious, condescending Hollywood Hate-America crowd. Nashville is a facile to the point of being a pathetic pile of childish garbage.

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Synopsis

In this acclaimed Robert Altman drama, the lives of numerous people in the Tennessee capital intersect in unpredictable ways. Delbert Reese (Ned Beatty) is a lawyer and political organizer who is having difficulties in his marriage to Linnea (Lily Tomlin), a gospel vocalist. Other performers heavily featured in this renowned ensemble production include country singers Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley) and Connie White (Karen Black), who are rivals in the city's thriving music scene.

Director: Robert Altman
Producer: Robert Altman
Screenwriter: Joan Tewkesbury
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 11, 1975, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 2h 37m
Sound Mix: Stereo, Surround
Aspect Ratio: 35mm, Scope (2.35:1)