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With a clear adoration for quirky, offbeat performers usually relegated to “character actor” status, Altman selected Paul Dooley and Marta Heflin as the little-known, unassuming leads for his romantic-despite-itself comedy. “Sheila312” and “Alex207” meet through a video-dating service, and the unlikely match endures a battery of awkward trials, including facing each other’s unconventional, patriarchal families: Alex’s eccentric, overbearing Greek dynasty and Sheila’s bohemian rock band community. With a naturalistic emphasis on co-screenwriter Allan Nicholls’ actual, fleeting Seventies’ rock/funk/disco group formed with out-of-work actors, A Perfect Couple perhaps mirrors many of the dynamics within Altman’s own ramshackle ensembles. Ultimately, the film celebrates the socially mutant members of a mixed-up America and posits a comic, if at times melancholic, possibility of hard-earned tolerance, forgiveness and love in the face of profound difference.
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Screenings from this program
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
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Vincent & Theo
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Fool for Love
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Prêt-à-porter
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California Split
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Thieves Like Us
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A Perfect Couple
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A Prairie Home Companion
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O.C. and Stiggs
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That Cold Day in the Park
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Corn's-A-Poppin'
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
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The Gingerbread Man
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Dr. T and the Women
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Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
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