Three Women (1977)

Plot: Story of "Pinky" (Spacek) who moves from Texas to work at a small-town California health resort. She meets, and then becomes roommates with, "Millie" (Duvall) a would-be sophisticate.The film explores their relationship.

Pros: Acting by Shelly Duvall and Sissy Spacek, some interesting scenes.
Cons: 

• One of the ugliest films I've seen (not talking the actresses). The location shots are ugly, the sets are unattractive, the men look like hairy apes, and it has that cheap 1970s TV look. Everyone outside the "Three Women" are unattractive.
• Altman pads the movie to an absurd extent. "Persona" is 85 minutes, Three Women is 124 minutes, yet Persona has more plot/dialogue. We get endless shots of people doing mundane everyday things. Conversations are desultory and banal - humor almost non-existent. 
• The story itself was meaningless and focused on two pathetic people with nothing uplifting/enlightening to say about them.

Summary: Not my kind of movie.  Pretentious, dull, and very, very long. Rating **