‘Kansas City’

Robert Altman calls his 1996 film a “jazz memory,” and no one could hope to improve upon his description of his rich evocation of his hometown in 1934, the year he turned 9. Altman spins a tale of a cockamamie kidnapping. With Jennifer Jason Leigh, as a kidnaper over her head, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte (pictured) and Dermot Mulroney (Showtime early Wednesday at 5:20 a.m.).