3 Women
Short description
3 Women follows Millie Lammoreaux and Pinky Rose, two women who work at the same care facility for the elderly in a small California town. Millie, who is preoccupied with fashion and her own social standing, needs a roommate; Pinky, younger and naive, moves in with her and comes to idolize her. Their relationship grows increasingly strange as the two become close to Willie, the wife of the man who owns the bar Millie frequents.
Robert Altman directed the film and wrote the screenplay with Patricia Resnick. It was his eighth film as director in chronological order, arriving between Nashville and A Wedding. Shelley Duvall plays Millie, Sissy Spacek plays Pinky, and Janice Rule plays Willie, with Robert Fortier, Ruth Nelson and John Cromwell in supporting roles. Its budget was 2 million dollars. Among critics, the film holds an 8.4 rating from 54 reviews, while audiences rate it 7.7 on IMDb and 7.1 on TMDB, indicating broad approval with somewhat less enthusiasm from general viewers than from reviewers.
What's left behind the scenes
- The first time Shelley Duvall's skirt got caught in the car door was accidental. Robert Altman (1925-2006) liked it so much that he included the episode in the film.
- The twin girls were not played by professional actresses, but by waitresses whom Robert Altman saw in a cafe in California.
- All the scenes of the film were shot consecutively in the order they appear in the film. Filming took place in a boarding house in Palm Springs, California.
- 20th Century Fox gave the green light to filming even though Robert Altman did not have a finished script, and he repeatedly expressed a desire to film without a script at all.
- Many of the actresses' lines were improvised on the spot. Moreover, Shelley Duvall herself wrote her own diary, furnished and decorated her character's apartment, and chose all the dishes.
- Director Robert Altman claimed that the film's ending was intended to be ambiguous and open to various interpretations. He himself believed that Edgar rests beneath a pile of tires in the final scene.
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