3 Women
Director: Robert Altman Run Time: 124 min. Release Year: 1977
Starring: Janice Rule, Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek
In a dusty, underpopulated California resort town, a naive southern waif, Pinky Rose (Spacek), idolizes and befriends her fellow nurse, the would-be sophisticate and ‘thoroughly modern’ Millie Lammoreaux (Duvall). When Millie takes Pinky in as her roommate, Pinky’s hero worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. Featuring brilliant performances, this dreamlike masterpiece careens from the humorous to the chilling to the surreal, resulting in one of the most unusual and compelling films of the 1970s. – Criterion Collection
“3 Women is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off.” – Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine