Comedy, mystery, drama, crime? Take your pick in this introspective look at a cross-section of society. Gosford Park is a commingling of vulgar, rich, old-money British aristocracy with vulgar, penniless, old-money British aristocracy with vulgar nouveau riche Americans and a large staff of vulgar downstairs servants. They're all commingled for a weekend do at the landed estate of His Lordship Sir William McCordle in the mid 1930s. Somewhere in the mix there are some sympathetic characters but you'll have to look hard. Nevertheless there is no shortage of refined British protocol to serve as glue for the event. Director Robert Altman creates a seamless continuum from a-z with which film fans might indulge in rapt cinematic voyeurism.