Kansas City (film)

Kansas City is a 1996 crime film, directed by Robert Altman and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy and Steve Buscemi. Kansas City is also notable for its musical score being integrated into the film, with modernday musicians recreating the Kansas City jazz of 1930s.

A kidnapping goes down in 1934 Kansas City. Blondie OHaras Leigh petty thief husband Johnny is taken by gangster Seldom Seen and held prisoner at the Hey Hey Club, one of the hot spots of the Kansas City jazz scene. Blondie herself kidnaps Mrs. Stilton, the wife of a local politician, played by Michael Murphy Mrs. Stilton is addicted to laudanum an opium liquid and has secrets of her own. Blondies plan is to blackmail Mr. Stilton into helping to free Johnny.Despite the risk to his reelection campaign, Mr. Stilton does everything he can in order to free his wife by saving Johnny. Meanwhile, Mrs. Stilton comes to befriend Blondie. She is impressed by Blondies devotion to her husband, contrasted to her own loveless marriage. ........

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