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KANSAS CITY
Synopsis
It's Kansas City, 1934, the eve of one of "Boss" Tom Pendergast's violent elections. The city is wide-open in the midst of the Depression, reverberating to the energy of non-stop jazz. Blondie O'Hara, a young telegraph operator, concocts a desperate plan to kidnap Carolyn Stilton, the socialite wife of an advisor to President Roosevelt. Her goal is to exchange Mrs Stilton for her petty thief of a husband, who has been caught by the legendary gangster Seldom Seen. Surrounded by moral turbulence, the two women forge a relationship that changes from abductor and captive to near-trusting friends as they head towards an inevitable transforming conclusion.
Credits
- Stephen ALTMAN - Set Designer
- Robert ALTMAN - Director
- Robert ALTMAN - Screenplay
- Frank BARHYDT - Screenplay
- Oliver STAPLETON - Cinematography
- Hal WILLNER - Music
- Geraldine PERONI - Film Editor
Actors
The Official Selection 1996
In Competition
- BREAKING THE WAVES
- COMMENT JE ME SUIS DISPUTÉ...(MA VIE SEXUELLE)
- CRASH
- FARGO
- GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE
- KANSAS CITY
- KAUAS PILVET KARKAAVAT
- LA SECONDA VOLTA
- LE HUITIÈME JOUR
- LES VOLEURS
- PO DI SANGUI
- RIDICULE
- SECRETS AND LIES
- STEALING BEAUTY
- SUNCHASER
- TEMPTRESS MOON
- THE QUIET ROOM
- THE VAN
- TIERRA
- TROIS VIES ET UNE SEULE MORT
- TROP TARD
- UN HÉROS TRÈS DISCRET