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Down By Law [1986]
 
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Down By Law [1986]
VHS ~ Tom Waits
4.6 out of 5 stars  (8 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Actors: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Ellen Barkin
  • Directors: Jim Jarmusch
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language English, Italian
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Second Sight Films Ltd.
  • VHS Release Date: 17 Sep 2001
  • Run Time: 106 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005NSVL
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,194 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

    Popular in these categories:

    #3 in  Video > World Cinema > Directors > Jarmusch, Jim
    #40 in  Video > World Cinema > US & Canada

Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law is in the same minimalist, oddball, black-and-white groove as his classic of American independent cinema, Stranger than Paradise (1984). The setting is Louisiana, where two losers (musicians Tom Waits and John Lurie) find themselves stuck in a jail cell together. One day they are joined by a boisterous Italian (Roberto Benigni), and the chemistry changes--suddenly an escape attempt is on the horizon. Conventional drama is not Jarmusch's intention; one of the emotional high points of this film is the three guys marching around their prison cell shouting, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Yet the deadpan style creates its own humorous mood, underscored by melancholy (also underscored by the music of Lurie and the gravel-voiced songs of Waits). This was the first American film for Italian comedian Benigni, (Life is Beautiful), and he lights it up with his effervescent clowning. Jarmusch has said that Down by Law forms a loose trilogy with Stranger than Paradise and the subsequent Mystery Train (1989)--a triptych of disaffected, drifting life in the United States. Few filmmakers have ever surveyed ennui so entertainingly. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

Synopsis
Comical jailhouse tale, in which three guys are thrown together in a Louisiana prison cell. The last thing they have on their minds is good behaviour...

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