After countless career ups and downs, maverick Hollywood auteur Robert Altman (M*A*S*H, Ready to Wear, Dr. T and the Women) released Short Cuts, his last great critically acclaimed hit -- and arguably his most towering naked celebrity triumph -- on this date in 1993.

Short Cuts adapts multiple short stories by esteemed writer Raymond Carver into a cross-section look at life in contemporary Los Angeles.

All that is well and artsy but what counts, and what puts Short Cuts on the short list of all-time great female nudity epics, is the unclothed work by Anne Archer, Frances McDormand, Lori Singer, and Madeline Stowe.

Topping it all off, though, is the bottomless blowout by Julianne Moore, in which she proves she’s a natural redhead for two uninterrupted, fantastically furry, flamingly pube-ilicious minutes of bare-crotch magnificence.