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McCarthy, Texas
- This first of numerous play adaptations by post-Hollywood Altman in the '80s comes to pass within a petite retail variety store in parched McCarthy, Texas, where a James Dean fan club reunites in 1975.
Robert Altman took Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean to the Montreal and Toronto film festivals in Canada, as well as those in Belgium, Venice and Deauville. [20] The film received its U.S. premiere on September 30, 1982 (the 27th anniversary of the late actor's death) at the Chicago International Film Festival , where it ...
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean: Directed by Robert Altman. With Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond. A fan club of die-hard James Dean fans meet on the 20th anniversary of his death and reconnect, opening old wounds and facing new ones.
- (5.2K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Robert Altman
- 1983-04-06
It's a mixture of the bizarre and the banal, a slice of lives that could never have been led, a richly textured mixture of confessions, obsessions, and surprises. The movie takes place in a worn-out Woolworth's in a small Texas town not far from the locations where James Dean shot "Giant" in 1955.
Dec 3, 2014 · Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean remains a gay touchstone as it also was--surprisingly--when it premiered in 1982. At that time, I worked as a...
- Armond White
Dec 9, 2015 · Before the reunion, a stranger (Karen Black) appears at the Woolworth’s, prompting queries and exposition about the James Dean fan club and its origins, from Juanita and Mona (Sudie Bond, Sandy Dennis), in Robert Altman’s Come Back To The 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, 1982.
- Robert Altman
- Sandy Dennis
“Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” is Robert Altman’s most intimate film. It is at turns harrowingly emotional, and uncomfortably confined. Post-“Popeye,” Altman veered from big budget studio productions to the exact opposite; small scale play adaptions.
Nov 27, 2014 · Now out on DVD and Blu-Ray is Robert Altman’s justly celebrated film adaptation of Ed Graczyk’s play, “Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.”
