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Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

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Members of a Texas James Dean fan club reunite 20 years after his death.
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Pauline Kael New Yorker Yes, the characters are warped by their illusions, but Altman has a poetic intuition of the way illusions wrap around people’s lives, and his technique -- all the artifice he brings to the staging -- becomes one with the themes of illusion and deception. Sep 19, 2023 Full Review Alyx Vesey Bitch Media We could make a number of conjectures about Altman's relationship to the cast of Come Back, but I do have to say it boasts one hell of an ensemble. Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Gary Arnold Washington Post Seems to achieve an astonishing rebirth in the transposition of a play from stage to screen. It is also a rebirth for Robert Altman, who has fashioned a stirring comeback, revitalizing his technique and presumably his career. Dec 18, 2015 Full Review Michael Bronski Gay Community News (Boston) Altman has managed to whip together an affecting, smart and oddly sincere movie out of a ratty script and three great actresses. Aug 25, 2022 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com An examination of memory and celebrity worship, Jimmy Dean is Graczyk's expert portrait of façade. Rated: 4/5 Nov 3, 2020 Full Review Susan Shapiro Sojourner Unfortunately, it is a Whitman's sampler of every negative stereotype imaginable. Aug 20, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Alec B Very theatrical but Altman finds ways to make it work. It doesn't hurt that the cast all did the play right before filming Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/10/24 Full Review Audience Member All I can say is... I loved & I wish it was shown on streaming device for free soon. Great Movie Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member It's a mix of nostalgia and rottenness. As one longs a past and simultaneously loathes it. Likewise for people. I found the beginning hard to follow because the story goes back and forth in time without any noticeable changes in the actors or in the setting. It was first a theater play, and the movie preserves a lot of its theatrical qualities. The movie still unfolds in a single act, a single setting. This can be a bit tedious and monotonous but the characters are rich and the acting is very good. Characters enter and walk in and times goes back and forth. Mona is the camera's favorite perhaps because she's the one almost always at the verge of a nervous breakdown. The premise eventually becomes clear: a reunion of the disciples of jimmy dean - a fan club with very special fans. The reunion uncovers a lot of their past. There's something about the journey to the past that immediately brings up some nostalgia. Not all beautiful, not all rotten, but all is wrapped with some nostalgia. People and memories that we simultaneously want close and apart. Moreover, people not things tell stories. Without those people, that store would be just an empty store. Besides these existential notes, the story obvious touches masculinity, and the effects of toxic masculinity, and femininity. All those women's lives were changed by men who one way or the other fail them. Finally the dialogue is beautiful, and alive. Again a combination of drama and comedy. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Very theatrical but Altman finds ways to make it work. It doesn't hurt that the cast all did the play right before filming Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review robert p Wonderful film by all concerned makes me own this Movie in my video collection! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Robert Altman's first Broadway production, based on Ed Graczyk's play, lasted 52 performances but despite bad critical notices, I'm so glad he decided to immortalize it on 16mm film for our viewing pleasure. Deliberately retaining its theatricality by staging it entirely in one double-set separated by two-way mirrors, the narrative unfolds in two different time-frames 20 years apart. The main story is set in 1975 as a group of superfans reunites for the 20th anniversary of the death of James Dean in a small fictitious Texan town that's slowly fading away. Cher's Sissy still works in the same Woolworth's with her ultra-religious boss Juanita (a typically wisecracking supporting turn by Sudie Bond) while Sandy Dennis's Mona has brought up a son she claims she conceived with James Dean. The arrival of Karen Black's stranger then forces the group to unearth and confront home truths and secrets that's been long ignored and hidden away. Going into this film blind, I was pleasantly surprised by the sensitive and progressive handling of controversial subject matters that would've shocked its audience then. The small cast boasts a fresh-faced Kathy Bates and Cher, in one of her first dramatic roles, who looks almost natural and believable as the gregarious waitress struggling quietly with her own domestic strives. However, it's a frumpily-dressed Sandy Dennis who takes the spotlight with a heart-breaking performance as a determined woman who'd rather dwell on one moment of past glory she had in her life than face reality. Undoubtedly, this works better as theatre but with a screenplay brimming with tears and laughter, I'm glad to have this introduction before it gets its long overdue revival on stage which I think will work beautifully as the issues it tackles couldn't be more relevant and contemporary if it tries. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Members of a Texas James Dean fan club reunite 20 years after his death.
Director
Robert Altman
Producer
Scott Bushnell
Screenwriter
Ed Graczyk
Production Co
Sandcastle 5 Productions, CBS
Rating
PG
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 5, 2019
Runtime
1h 50m
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