1982 · drama · stage · ensemble
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Directed by Robert Altman1h 50m1982
On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fan club gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.
Our read: Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · stage · ensemble entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / stage, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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