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This is an
Altman film. Its artistic in its format, i.e. it doesn't have one that you can
identify.
The story details the haphazard lives of two compulsive
gamblers searching for that ever-elusive big score. Newly single and
soon-to-be-unemployed Bill (George Segal) joins live-wire pal Charlie (Elliott
Gould), as the pair move from Fruit Loops with Charlie's hooker roommates Sue
(Gwen Welles) and Barbara (Ann Prentiss) to bets on horses, backroom card
games, boxing, and basketball.
They make it to Las Vegas, but Bill comes
to realize that even the big score may not be the answer to the meaning (or
meaninglessness) of life. For Charlie, however, that's all there is.
Altman produces a "celebration of gambling" that is in itself something
of a game, filled with random incidents, trivial and serious, amusing and not,
that emphasize the essential rootlessness of the gambler's life. |
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| California Split is one of
Altman's trademark character-driven films. It is less concerned with plot than
behaviour as we watch the friendship between Bill and Charlie develop over a
mutual love of gambling. As the film progresses and the two men hang out more,
Bill starts to become more addicted to the gambling lifestyle. He blows off
work early to meet Charlie at the track and sells his possessions for money.
Bill and Charlie are gambling addicts who ride the high arcs and the low
valleys, never passing up a bet. At a boxing match they put money on the
outcome of the fight with a fellow spectator. |
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| Plot Synopsis: A
down on his luck gambler (George Seagal) links up with free spirit Elliot Gould
at first to have some fun on, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an
unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of desperation, he pawns most of
his possessions and goes to Reno for the poker game of a lifetime. A film set
mainly in casinos and races, as the two win and lose (but mainly win), get
robbed, and get blind drunk. |
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| Director |
Robert
Altman |
George
Segal |
William
Denny |
| Writing |
Joseph Walsh
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Elliott
Gould |
Charlie
Waters |
| Cinematography |
Paul
Lohmann |
Ann
Prentiss |
Barbara
Miller |
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Gwen
Welles |
Susan
Peters |
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