Nashville

Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country-music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal—and critique—of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Alongside Duvall’s single-minded groupie L.A. Joan are a cast of sundry stars, aspirants, and hangers-on, including a politically ambitious country icon and his fragile star protegée, a self-absorbed rock star who woos a lonely, married gospel singer, a talentless waitress painfully humiliated at her first singing gig, and a campaign guru trying to organize a concert rally for an unseen but always heard populist presidential candidate. Everything comes to a head during a climactic concert at Nashville's replica of the Parthenon temple.