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Kansas City
Directed by
Robert Altman
R
1996
1h 56m
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6.3
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A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
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Cast of Kansas City
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Blondie O'Hara
Miranda Richardson
Carolyn Stilton
Harry Belafonte
Seldom Seen
Michael Murphy
Henry Stilton
Dermot Mulroney
Johnny O'Hara
Steve Buscemi
Johnny Flynn
Brooke Smith
Babe Flynn
Jane Adams
Nettie Bolt
Jeff Feringa
Addie Parker
A.C. Smith
Sheepshan Red
Martin Martin
'Blue' Green
Albert J. Burnes
Charlie Parker
Ajia Mignon Johnson
Pearl Cummings
Tim Snay
Rally Speaker
Tawanna Benbow
Rose
Cal Pritner
Governor Park
Jerry Fornelli
Tom Prendergast
Michael Ornstein
Jackie Ciro
John Durbin
Gas Station Attendant
Gina Belafonte
Hey-Hey Club Hostess
Nancy Marcy
Telegraph Operator
Marlon Hoffman
Lazia Man
Craig Handy
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Tenor Saxophone
Joshua Redman
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Tenor Saxophone
Jesse Davis
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Alto Saxophone
Don Byron
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Clarinet / Baritone Saxophone
Nicholas Payton
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Trumpet
Curtis Fowlkes
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Trombone
Clark Gayton
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Trombone
Cyrus Chestnut
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Piano
Ron Carter
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Bass
Christian McBride
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Bass
Russell Malone
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Guitar
Kevin Mahogany
Hey-Hey Club Musician: Big Joe Turner
Paul Anselmo
Gangster (uncredited)
Cameron DeVictor
Gangster (uncredited)
Ron Licari
Bar drunk (uncredited)
John Pritchett
Phone Clerk (uncredited)
Andrew Patrick Ralston
Flynn's Man (uncredited)
Tim Wrobel
Pendergast Voter (uncredited)
Jason Ray
Businessman (uncredited)
Robert Altman
Director / Writer / Producer
Frank Barhydt
Writer
Kansas City Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Hectic and seething...
Spin
Michael Atkinson
Kansas City goes nowhere fast.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Charlie Parker and his mother are gratuitously shoehorned into the plot, though some of the movie's other strategies for imparting flavor work; what doesn't work here is the flip cynicism, which by now, alas, has become Altman's debilitating trademark.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Altman stated that Kansas City was constructed like a jazz session, and that proves to be both its greatest strength and its major weakness.
Newsweek
Jack Kroll
Altman loves to explode movie genres, and his script, co-written with Frank Barhydt, fuses the classic '30s screwball comedy and crime film.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
A minor Altman work that can't bridge the gap between larger issues--inequality, American politics--and intimate narrative about two women, well played by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Robert Altman brings us an effective, if minor, crime film filled with the jazz sounds of Count Basie and Lester Young.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Altman looks back at his hometown in an unsentimental, hard-nosed way.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
It could never for an instant be mistaken for anything but a Robert Altman film, and that counts for a lot.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Would someone throw a net over Jennifer Jason Leigh? She's at it again.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson are synergetic perfection as social opposites thrown together for 24 hours in a 1934 hot town.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Although the movie contains occasional moments of glimpsed accomplishment, Kansas City is for the most part a lame duck.
Houston Chronicle
Jeff Millar
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.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
[It] has its own brawling vitality.
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