Magnolia’s prototype featuring: a death bed, a tv personality, a cop, a dead body, a natural disaster, shitty parents and their guilt and regret, damn good songs, Julianne Moore, other A-listers’ best performances, 3-hour runtime that feels like 90 mins, and above all the city of LA (now I know how much of an Altman fanboy PTA is)
Patience! At first all sporadic, expanding lives connected with chance, somehow fall into place and tied together with the earthquake in the end and with the core of human selfishness (of victims and victimizers alike). How does one come out of an Altman film feeling positive?