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3 Women

1 woman became 2, 2 women became 3, 3 women became 1.

1977 · 2h 4m · PG Drama, Mystery
Directed by Robert Altman

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Overview

An awkward young teen working at a spa becomes overly attached to her fellow worker, a lonely outcast. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist and her has-been cowboy husband. Amid emotional crises, the three woman steal and trade one another's personalities.

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All reviews
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Throughout, Duvall is brilliant: she coins a brand-new caricature of the confident yet clueless single female, then suggests a real person underneath.

Michael Sragow, New Yorker
Fresh

Like a dream, it is most mysterious and allusive when it appears to be most precise and direct, when its images are of the recognizable world unretouched (as happens in the film from time to time) by camera filters or lab technicians.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

I have seen it many times, been through it twice in shot-by-shot analysis, and yet it always seems to be happening as I watch it. Recurring dreams are like that.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

A spectacular artistic success.

Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh

A gauzy, perfectly executed vacation in Doppelganger-burg.

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

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