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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 3384442000055
Format: PAL
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1996
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Disappointment is a Personal Feeling
Was reading William Blake, remembered this movie and that it went away with the ex and that I NEEDED it. I could need it for Iggy Pop's amazing frontier woman drag queen sketch alone, but there are many more reasons. This is a great film; entertaining, thought-provoking and sinister in its rendering of the Blakeian dichotomy between Innocence and Experience.
Rating: - Dead Man: An Eccentric Surprise
For those of us from the communities that attend first nations ceremony, this film is a treat and a surprise. Native artist friends often complain that they must insert an "indian guy" somewhere within their work so as to be ensured of entry into various "indian art" shows. One friend paints exquisite planetary visions, Jupiter or Saturn looming fantastically in smoothly-bent and synthetic Earthlines.... but he must always carefully put a guy on a horse somewhere... or it's not Native art to the ... Read More
Rating: - Stupid F***ing White Man
This is a personal favorite of mine. It mixes tragedy, pathos, mystery, and bizarre comedy in a way that is so disjointed it makes perfect sense.
Depp was marvelous in this. He made some great career choices; the main one being that he rejected "prtty boy" roles. Yet his William Blake character is an almost surealist parody of the very typecast he avoided.
Gary Farmer stole every scene he was in. This was another role that thumbed its nose at typecasting. Yet Farmer's character ... Read More
Rating:  - DEAD MAN was Great
We found this movie on Netflix just because it had Johnny Depp and we hadn't seen it. We found it interesting from the git go about the boring uncomfortable weird trip he had getting to Mechanic for his job. The Movie makes you feel like you were actually there. Showed you things the way the old west probably was actually like. We loved the movie and even went online and bought a used copy from amazon for 4.00. Can't wait to watch it again.
Rating: - Brilliant Study of Western American Cultural Roots
It's creepy in parts but it's also beautiful and funny too.
I think it's one of the most honest Westerns ever made.
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