
Cold Feet
1984

Representation Score
Fair
1979
PGDirector
Robert Altman
Runtime
110 minutes
Average Rating
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Robert Altman's direction contrasts a structured bachelor with a mobile, communal band of musicians, critiquing social hierarchies. By focusing on non-conformist lifestyles, the film moves away from homogeneous casting and traditional domestic clichés, presenting a more fluid social landscape. However, the film remains centered around a conventional romantic pairing. While it explores bohemianism, it lacks explicit LGBTQ+ representation and provides limited details on racial ability to act or disability.
Category Breakdown
The story focuses on a relationship between an older man and a younger woman, which follows traditional heterosexual norms. Although the bohemian setting suggests a tolerant environment, there are no explicit depictions of same-sex relationships.
The film challenges the traditional 1970s domestic setting by placing the female lead in an autonomous, artistically driven community. This shifts the power dynamic away from the male protagonist's rigid, uptight worldview.
The cast includes actors of various ethnicities such as Belita Moreno and Titos Vandis. However, the film does not depict a predominantly non-white cast and offers limited ability to act for these performers.
The narrative emphasizes bohemian, communal living over traditional Western institutions like the nuclear family. It presents a nomadic, musical lifestyle as a valid alternative to bourgeois stability.
There is no indication within the film's documentation of the portrayal of physical or neurodivergent disabilities.
Present on Screen
Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite.

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