CALIFORNIA SPLIT
Directed by ROBERT ALTMAN
Screenplay by JOSEPH WALSH
All bets are off. George Segal and Elliott Gould, a pair of raveled gamblers, need luck bad. They go to Reno, play big, win even bigger, and come up empty. Granted, there does not seem to be much of promise here, but Robert Altman has made a funny, smart, anxious movie about luck and lowlife.
One of Altman's surest talents is the creation of a whole world, slightly antic and off-center, so that his movies (like McCabe and Mrs. Miller or Thieves Like Us) have...
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