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Mystery Train Review
By Christopher Null
Another oddity odyssey courtesy of Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train is actually his first color film and hardly his best work. Following a triptych of stories in a sleepy, run-down Memphis hotel (the train itself is considerably less important to the story), while the movie has a number of gigglish moments, on the whole it's a disappointment of squandered story ideas that plod on without much happening. Pretty typical of Jarmusch's characters' on-screen chattiness.
Facts and Figures
Year: 1989
Run time: 110 mins
In Theaters: Tuesday 7th November 1989
Budget: $2.8M
Distributed by: Orion Home Video
Reviews
Contactmusic.com: 2.5 / 5
Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
Fresh: 28 Rotten: 4
IMDB: 7.5 / 10
Cast & Crew
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Producer: Jim Stark
Screenwriter: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase as Jun, Youki Kudoh as Mitsuko, Joe Strummer as Johnny aka Elvis, Nicoletta Braschi as Luisa, Steve Buscemi as Charlie the Barber, Screamin' Jay Hawkins as Night Clerk, Rufus Thomas as Man in Station, Cinqué Lee as Bellboy
Also starring: Cinque Lee, Elizabeth Bracco, Tom Noonan, Stephen Jones, Lowell Roberts, Rick Aviles, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Royale Johnson, Winston Hoffman, Jim Stark, Jim Jarmusch
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