Nashville 1975

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 159 min

genre: comedy-drama

theme: musical

director: Robert Altman

Score: 6 / 10

Nashville is a 1975 American musical comedy drama film directed and produced by Robert Altman. The film follows various people involved in the country and gospel music industry in Nashville, Tennessee, over the five-day period leading up to a gala concert for a populist outsider running for president on the Replacement Party ticket.

Plot

Hal Philip Walker, Replacement Party candidate in the 1976 United States presidential election, arrives in Nashville for a fundraising gala. Meanwhile, two recording sessions are taking place in a nearby studio: in one room, country superstar Haven Hamilton records a patriotic song commemorating the Bicentennial, while next door, Linnea Reese, a white gospel singer, records a song with the Jubilee Singers of historically black Fisk University. Opal, an Englishwoman who claims to be working on a documentary for the BBC (though she refers to the British Broadcasting Company), attempts to listen in on the sessions.

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author	Joan Tewkesbury
award	National Board of Review Award for Best Film National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Tennessee
director	Robert Altman
editor	Dennis M. Hill Sidney Levin
events	country music Nashville politics of the United States
genre	comedy-drama
keywords	1976 united states presidential election assassination of john f. kennedy bbc berry field bicentennial black baptist black church bleed broadcast car race country singer deaf deaf child deafness detach detroit exit/in fisk jubilee singers fisk university gospel gospel music gospel singer grand ole opry groupie heat exhaustion historically black historically black colleges and universities hotel room i\'m easy in the garden jubilee singers married couple mental hospital morning multiple-vehicle collision nashville international airport nervous breakdown nightclub owner obsess opryland usa parthenon pfc. pile-up presidential election private first class recording session search session shoot sing stock car strand striptease tape recorder this isn\'t dallas traffic jam united states bicentennial wound
musicBy	Richard Baskin
nomination	Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress César Award for Best Foreign Film
producer	Robert Altman
productionCompany	ABC Motion Pictures
publisher	Paramount Pictures
theme	black comedy musical satirical