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starring: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott directed by: Jim Jarmusch List Price: $14.99 Amazon.com's Price: $9.99 You Save: $5.00 (33%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0786936141788 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Miramax Manufacturer: Miramax Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Miramax Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 19, 2000 Running Time: 121 minutes Sales Rank: 2361 Studio: Miramax Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1996 Related Items: Editorial Review: Description: Johnny Depp (CHOCOLAT) delivers a remarkable performance in this highly acclaimed tale of adventure and intrigue in the wild, wild west! A young man in search of a fresh start, William Blake (Depp) embarks on an exciting journey to a new town ... never realizing the danger that lies ahead. But when a heated love triangle ends in double murder, Blake finds himself a wanted man, running scared -- until a mysterious loner teaches him to face the dangers that follow a 'dead man.' With an outstanding supporting cast including Gabriel Byrne (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) and Robert Mitchum (CAPE FEAR), and a sizzling soundtrack, DEAD MAN is another motion picture triumph from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. Amazon.com: This disappointment from Jim Jarmusch stars Johnny Depp in a mystery-Western about a 19th-century accountant named William Blake, who spends nearly all his money getting to a hellish mud town in the old West and ends up penniless and doomstruck in the wilderness. A benevolent if goofy Native American (Gary Farmer) takes an interest in guiding Blake on a quest for identity in his earthly journey, but the film is really just a string of endless shtick about inbred woodsmen, dumb lawmen, and a trio of irritable killers. With Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Alfred Molina, and a noodling soundtrack by Neil Young. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Disappointment is a Personal FeelingWas reading William Blake, remembered this movie and that it went away with the ex and that I NEEDED it. I could need it for Iggy Pop's amazing frontier woman drag queen sketch alone, but there are many more reasons. This is a great film; entertaining, thought-provoking and sinister in its rendering of the Blakeian dichotomy between Innocence and Experience. Rating: - Dead Man: An Eccentric SurpriseFor those of us from the communities that attend first nations ceremony, this film is a treat and a surprise. Native artist friends often complain that they must insert an "indian guy" somewhere within their work so as to be ensured of entry into various "indian art" shows. One friend paints exquisite planetary visions, Jupiter or Saturn looming fantastically in smoothly-bent and synthetic Earthlines.... but he must always carefully put a guy on a horse somewhere... or it's not Native art to the ... Read More Rating: - Stupid F***ing White ManThis is a personal favorite of mine. It mixes tragedy, pathos, mystery, and bizarre comedy in a way that is so disjointed it makes perfect sense. Depp was marvelous in this. He made some great career choices; the main one being that he rejected "prtty boy" roles. Yet his William Blake character is an almost surealist parody of the very typecast he avoided. Gary Farmer stole every scene he was in. This was another role that thumbed its nose at typecasting. Yet Farmer's character ... Read More Rating:  - DEAD MAN was GreatWe found this movie on Netflix just because it had Johnny Depp and we hadn't seen it. We found it interesting from the git go about the boring uncomfortable weird trip he had getting to Mechanic for his job. The Movie makes you feel like you were actually there. Showed you things the way the old west probably was actually like. We loved the movie and even went online and bought a used copy from amazon for 4.00. Can't wait to watch it again. Rating: - Brilliant Study of Western American Cultural RootsIt's creepy in parts but it's also beautiful and funny too. I think it's one of the most honest Westerns ever made. |
