
Pinky is an awkward adolescent who starts work at a spa in the California desert. She becomes overly attached to fellow spa attendant, Millie when she becomes Millie's room-mate. Millie is a lonely outcast who desperately tries to win attention with constant up-beat chatter. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist and her has-been cowboy husband. After two emotional crises, the three women steal and trade personalities until they settle into a new family uni... (Full plot summary below)
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Pinky is an awkward adolescent who starts work at a spa in the California desert. She becomes overly attached to fellow spa attendant, Millie when she becomes Millie's room-mate. Millie is a lonely outcast who desperately tries to win attention with constant up-beat chatter. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist and her has-been cowboy husband. After two emotional crises, the three women steal and trade personalities until they settle into a new family unit that seems to give each woman what she was searching for.
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| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann Brussat3 Women is an intriguing film by Robert Altman that resides in the netherworld between dreaming and waking. |
| The SkinnyMichelle DevereauxAltman's signature telephoto framing, omnipresent murals depicting demon-like creatures, and an atonal score add a creeping menace to uncanny California desert settings. |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanIt ranks in the pantheon of great films about dreams. |
| Slant MagazineEric Henderson3 Women is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off. |
| Las Vegas Review-JournalCarol ClingFascinating, elliptical and enigmantic ... authentic Altman. Altman. |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerAn incisive portrait of psychological alienation. |
| Times (UK)Wendy IdeThe result is remarkable -- a semi-lucid, feverish tale of female relationships that disintegrates into a kind of woozy, oppressive madness. |
| Scene-Stealers.comEric Melin3 Women is definitely a slow burn of a movie, but it's also amazing how well it taps into and visualizes the subconscious. Nothing is spelled out by Altman, who wants the audience to interpret the film's meaning for themselves. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonToday, the movie doesn't portend Altman's subsequent tailspin into irrelevance as much as it suggests a restlessness with the comic realism he had mastered. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyLike 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. |