Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Miranda Richardson,
Harry Belafonte,
Michael Murphy,
Dermot Mulroney
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The jazz world of 1930s Kansas City serves as the backdrop for an offbeat story of kidnapping, political corruption, and organized crime in director Robert Altman's loving but unsentimental look at hi... read more
DVD Release Date: February 15, 2005
Stats: 79 reviews
"Kansas City" is an extremely slight film in Robert Altman's filmography. I was surprised that Altman forgets the basic ingredients that are so important to making film noir work. The biggest sin "Kansas City" commits is that the film is never nasty. A good film noir should alway... read more
boring, but interesting and decently made... also just my opinion but Jennifer Jason Leigh makes Dane Cook seem oscar worthy (seriously).
This is Belafonte's movie. Someone with so much music in his soul being able to play so chillingly souless a character. Amazing performance.
I pefered this film then Altman's "Thieves Like Us" which was also set in the depression era of the 1930. "Kansas City" doesn't care so much on the plot but rather on the characters but I was particularly more interested in the jazz players, and a "Godfather" type played by Harry... read more
Robert Altman is one of those directors I will never understand. I have nothing against the man but the significance bestowed upon him by film scholars is beyond me. Sure, he made a lot of decent films, some of which are watchable, but on the whole they always come across as seve... read more
If you like crime this molvie is great i seen it 3 times make that kansas city mo is where it takes place
A sadly ordinary motion picture, and, in less sure hands, it might have been something of an unfortunate mess. Even with Altman at the helm, however, it manages to be singularly unremarkable. Full Review
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson are synergetic perfection as social opposites thrown together for 24 hours in a 1934 hot town.
Would someone throw a net over Jennifer Jason Leigh? She's at it again. Full Review
All of the characters act as if somebody might come along someday and make a movie about them. And Altman, who made the movie, gets his chance to sit in at last on one of those cutting sessions. Full Review
Let's just say that if you find it arbitrary and more an expression of Altman's feelings about class than the outcome of his story, then we are in agreement.
A minor work in Altman's oeuvre that can't bridge the gap between its larger issues--sharp inequality, American political process--and the two women at its center that are not interesting as character... Full Review
Robert Altman brings us an effective, if minor, crime film filled with the jazz sounds of Count Basie and Lester Young. Full Review
Altman looks back at his hometown in an unsentimental, hard-nosed way. Full Review
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