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Alongside his more touted multi-character panoramas, Altman also had a fondness for small-scale dramas investigating the complexities of female psychology, and of these none is greater than the ineffable 3 Women, which finds Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Janice Rule thrown together at a health spa in the California desert that caters to the elderly. As time passes, personas become increasingly permeable, and the proceedings feel like something conceived in a dream—which, indeed, the movie was!

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century