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Dead Man | 
| Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.99
Buy Used: $6.25
You Save: $8.74 (58%)
Rating:  303 reviews
Sales Rank: 3591
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 121 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD21364D
UPC: 786936141788
EAN: 0786936141788
ASIN: B00004Z4WX
Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1996
Release Date: December 19, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
On the run after murdering a man accountant william blake encounters a strange indian named nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/07/2004 Starring: Johnny Depp Crispin Glover Run time: 121 minutes Rating: R
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 298 more reviews...
 Disappointment is a Personal Feeling January 6, 2009
Martha Ann Kennedy (San Diego, CA)
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.
Dead Man: An Eccentric Surprise January 2, 2009
Rebecca Whetstine (Portland, OR)
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 juries. And so this film takes iconic images and bends them around, from the soundtrack, the contrasty production values and segues, to the fantastically internally-referenced performance of Gary Farmer.
Every last personage is freed to deliver surprises: Neil Young wrote that soundtrack? Yup. Gary Farmer did WHAT with his hat? Yum. The final scenes must be watched carefully again and again to be mined for subtle resonances.
It's a beaut. I rarely watch a film more than a couple of times over long stretches. Dead Man is worth visits again and again.
Stupid F***ing White Man December 6, 2008
Dawoud Kringle (New York City)
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 Nobody, having endured all manner of humiliations his whole life, emerged as an arguably genuine holy man in his tradition. A little off beat, but the real deal.
Robert Mitchum was hilarious as the homocidal industrialist Mr. Dickenson.
The one liners alone are worth watching the movie.
 DEAD MAN was Great November 26, 2008
Jeffrey S. Lamb (Dallas, Texas)
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.
Brilliant Study of Western American Cultural Roots October 24, 2008
Kirk A. Noah (Bellingham, WA USA)
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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