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Nashville (1975)

★ 7.2 · 460 ratings on TMDB

The damndest thing you ever saw.

Nashville poster★ 7.2

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.

DirectorRobert Altman
CastBarbara Baxley, David Arkin, Geraldine Chaplin, Karen Black, Keith Carradine, Ned Beatty
GenresComedy, Drama, Music
The emergence reading

Nashville keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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