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Short Cuts
By Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt from the book by Raymond Carver - Film
Roles
- Dr.
- Ralph
- Wyman
- Marian
- Wyman
About this piece
He kissed you, didn't he? Details 2 hr 21 minutes into the film
Summary
This film is a collection of stories set in Los Angeles. This one in particular concerns a married couple, the Wymans, whose marriage is going a little stale. Marian Wyman is a painter and Ralph Wyman is a doctor. At a concert, they meet a couple and invite them to dinner. Here they are waiting for the couple to show up for the dinner. Ralph is sitting on a chair, sipping milk while Marian is getting ready. Ralph looks at one of Marian's paintings and wonders why her subjects are always naked...He has something in his mind, an episode that happened years back at a party, when she kissed another man. He brings up the subject and grills her until she loses it. The argument escalates and she ends up admitting that she had sex with him..
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