| | | 1 woman became 2/2 women became 3/3 women became 1
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Mono Audio
In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse "Thoroughly Modern" Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall), a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of Cosmopolitan and Woman's Day magazines. When Millie accepts Pinky into her home at the Purple Sage singles complex, Pinky's hero-worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. Featuring brilliant performances from Spacek and Duvall, Robert Altman's dreamlike masterpiece, 3 Women, careens from the humorous to the chilling to the surreal, resulting in one of the most unusual and compelling films of the 1970s.
"Absorbing moody and often compelling story." Variety
Editor's Note
Robert Altman delivers one of his most startlingly enigmatic pictures with 3 WOMEN. Inspired by a dream Altman had in which he was shooting a film in the desert, the film tells the story of a shy, quiet girl named Pinky (Sissy Spacek), who starts working in a nursing home and strikes up a friendship with the talkative Millie (Shelley Duvall). The pair share an apartment and grow closer together, but a series of strange events cause their personas to change and morph in unexpected ways. Recalling the dreamy atmosphere of Ingmar Bergman's PERSONA, 3 WOMEN is Altman at his most deliriously inspired.
| Features | Publicity Photos | | Director Commentary | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Still Gallery | | Scene Selection | | Interactive Menus | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 4/20/2004 |
| Running Time: 124 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1977 | | Catalog ID: 1601-D | | UPC: 00715515015127 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Cannes (1977) |  | Shelley Duvall, Winner, Best Actress |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Funny, witty....[Duvall's character] is one of the most memorable characterizations [Altman] has ever given us..." 04/11/1977 p.40Entertainment Weekly
"A serenely terrific Duvall plays a delusional loner, and Spacek is the mysterious waif who latches onto her....[H]ypnotic..." 05/01/2004 p.146-7 USA Today
"[T]his is the greatest of director Robert Altman's filmed 'experiments'..." 04/23/2004 p.4E Premiere
"This is a remarkable gem from the New Hollywood '70s era; it's hard to imagine such a daringly idiosyncratic movie being made by a studio today." 06/01/2004 p.114 Sight and Sound
"[A] surprisingly sensual study of personality addiction....3 WOMEN is to Bergman's PERSONA what IMAGES is to Polanski's REPULSION." 07/01/2004 p.75 Film Comment
"Forget about POPEYE: 3 WOMEN was the last gulp of spinach in Altman's Seventies career, and one helluva way to go." 07/01/2004 p.79 Christian SCience Monitor 10 of 10
Written and directed by a brilliant screen artist at the peak of his powers, it's an utterly origina - David Sterrit
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