Kansas City

Ice cool, red-hot jazz is the soul of Robert Altman's personal excursion back into the title Missouri town during its seedy Depression-era heyday. With his trademark quickly shifting cross-cut episodes Altman skewers the American institutions of big business, politics and the myth of American honesty, and fortitude in the face of adversity. His 1934 Kansas City is a ruthless place where the struggle to survive drives normally decent people beyond the law's frontiers. The stories begin as fe...