Dead Man
 | Directed by Jim Jarmusch Starring: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott Miramax, 1996, DVD Customer Rating: 312 reviews Recommend |
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Johnny Depp (CHOCOLAT) delivers a remarkable performance in this highly acclaimed tale of adventure and intrigue in the wild, wild west! A young man in search of a fresh start, William Blake (Depp) embarks on an exciting journey to a new town ... never realizing the danger that lies ahead. But when a heated love triangle ends in double murder, Blake finds himself a wanted man, running scared — until a mysterious loner teaches him to face the dangers that follow a "dead man." With an outstanding supporting cast including Gabriel Byrne (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) and Robert Mitchum (CAPE FEAR), and a sizzling soundtrack, DEAD MAN is another motion picture triumph from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch.
This disappointment from Jim Jarmusch stars Johnny Depp in a mystery-Western about a 19th-century accountant named William Blake, who spends nearly all his money getting to a hellish mud town in the old West and ends up penniless and doomstruck in the wilderness. A benevolent if goofy Native American (Gary Farmer) takes an interest in guiding Blake on a quest for identity in his earthly journey, but the film is really just a string of endless shtick about inbred woodsmen, dumb lawmen, and a trio of irritable killers. With Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Alfred Molina, and a noodling soundtrack by Neil Young. — Tom Keogh
Title: Dead Man
Sales Rank: 2798 in DVD
Actor: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Studio: Miramax, 2000-12-19, Theatrical Release: 1996-05-10
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.78:1
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Subtitled)
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 121 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches, 0.15 pounds
- Worth One Watch for Scenery and Face Shots
- Mr. Depp chose this role, in an attempt to escape pretty-boy flicks (goes to show you can take the boy out of the pretty...) -- and thusly, this is a beautiful black and white film, worth *ONE* watch, for its gorgeous scenery and Johnny-Depp face shots. The moral of the story isn't a new one: oppressive white people suck, but… More reviews
- Deeply philosophical at Nobody's level
- This movie parallels life beautifully, almost too beautifully... It takes a rather inane situation, as most of us live in our day-to-day lives, and tries desperately to suffuse it with meaning. Life has become too concrete, but we want to believe it's bottomless, so we stomp and stomp on the pavement hoping it will shatter under the weight of our frustration. It is almost a role-reversal in existential terms;… More reviews
- Excellent
- This movie is a bleak masterpiece. Johnny Depp plays a city man whose life falls apart in the American Northwest. The film is incredibly cinematic and devastatingly haunting. A must see. More reviews
- Greil Marcus LOVED this shaggy dog story
- Well famous rock critic Greil Marcus loved the hell outta this Jim Jarmusch flick. Somebody asks what the Amazon reviewer who called "Dead Man" "disappointing" was smoking. I might want to ask the same of Greil Marcus who's lavish praise influenced me to buy this DVD. I mean it really is an interesting movie. I liked it a lot, but "the best… More reviews
- Moody
- I found this movie a little more mysterious than I think it intended to be. Johnny Depp is strangely flat, and some of the plot points went past me. But the black and white cinematography is never less than striking, particularly a scene of Depp and his Indian cohort riding pinto ponies through a forest of ferns. More reviews
