Mystery Train

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Rating: R
Running Time: 110 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Japan
synopsis
An exploration of Memphis, Tennessee seen through the eyes of non-Americans.
cast + crew
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December 8, 2000
Mystery Train

566 (11-30-89)
Granted, writer and director Jim Jarmusch isn't everybody's idea of independent-filmmaking energy unbound. His previous movies (Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law) have been called minimalist, marginal and lulling. And that's by those who say they enjoy them. His detractors use words like dull, petty and numbing. The spare but richly funny Mystery Train (the final part of a trilogy begun with Stranger) ought to go a long way toward defusing the… Continued