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Ready to Wear (1994)

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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 6  Rotten:14 Average Rating: 4.9/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins

Synopsis: Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been... Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder creates chaos amongst the gathered participants and viewers. Affected parties include his widow, who uses this opportunity to rekindle an old relationship; the dead man's mistress, a designer who is forced to sell out to a Texas boot tycoon; three magazine editors, who all have their eyes on the same photographer; two American reporters whose affair keeps them in bed throughout the gathering; and two aging Roman lovers who are reuniting after many years. The film's many revolving characters and stories collide at the climax, an all-nude fashion show that stuns and excites the crowd. Altman's comedy boasts one of his most star-studded casts, and actors who are playing fictional characters intermingle with popular designers and models who play themselves. This fresh mixing of fiction and reality recalls the director's thrilling THE PLAYER, and the multi-layered story, the masterful NASHVILLE. Standout performances include the late Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, Tracey Ullman, and a hysterical Kim Basinger. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, Sophia Loren, Kim Basinger, Lyle Lovett

Director: Robert Altman
Producer: Robert Altman
Composer: Michel Legrand
Screenwriter: Robert Altman, Barbara Shulgasser

DVD Info

Release:

May 6, 2001

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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3/5

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10/15/05
Michael Szymanski
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2/5

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08/16/05
Emanuel Levy
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2/5

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01/13/05
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals
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2/4

Sporadically amusing camp mess.

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08/07/04
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies
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1.5/5

Though it credits Mr. Altman and Barbara Shulgasser as writers, this film seems practically scriptless, to the point where much of it plays like a first rehearsal.

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05/17/04
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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3/5

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04/03/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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1/5

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12/23/03
Frank Swietek
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3/5

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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1.5/4

Robert Altman may be the most inconsistent American film director alive.

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05/20/03
Susan Tavernetti
Palo Alto Weekly
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4/5

Altman's much-maligned comedy about the fashion industry deserves another look.

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05/12/03
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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3/5

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02/05/03
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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11/27/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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10/15/01
Dragan Antulov
rec.arts.movies.reviews
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So overblown, so full of itself and yet so exquisitely empty, that we're left wondering whether, in his haste to expose the Emperor's New Clothes, the artist has stopped near a mirror to check his own dangerously ephemeral finery.

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01/01/00
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
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2.5/4

It seems like a very long wait to get to the various punch lines.

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01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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2/5

I got the feeling that Altman didn’t really have any idea what he wanted to say with this film (which he later conceded in a TV interview).

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01/01/00
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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2.5/4

Despite some delicious moments, this sluggish, overlong, halfhearted satire feels like a movie that wanted to go somewhere but never got there.

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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2/5

Ready to Wear is to filmmaking what paper dresses were to fashion -- thin, trendy, and disposable.

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01/01/00
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
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The picture is not a social satire. It’s a mess.

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01/01/00
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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