Down by Law - Criterion Collection
by Jim Jarmusch
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Actor: Ellen Barkin, John Lurie, Nicoletta Braschi, Roberto Benigni, Tom WaitsDirector: Jim Jarmusch
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Producer: Alan Kleinberg
Producer: Cary Brokaw
Producer: Jim Stark
Producer: Otto Grokenberger
Producer: Russell Schwartz
Producer: Tom Rothman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Down by Law - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Tom Waits at his best
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD was purchased as a gift for a friend who is a moviemaker. It is a must see for Tom Waits fans as he is the writer, director, and producer. He also wrote the music of course. This film contains one of the best male/female fight scenes. Ellen Arkin (Loretta) gives an over-the-top performance when she starts throwing Tom Waites (Zack's) worldly possessions out the window. This little low-budget film is a comic masterpeice of epic proportions.
Summary of Down by Law - Criterion Collection
When fate lands 3 hapless men - an unemployed disc jockey a small-time pimp & a strong-willed italian tourist - in a louisiana prison their singular adventure begins. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 10/22/2002 Starring: John Lurie Roberto Benigni Run time: 107 minutes Director: Jom JarmuschAfter creating one of the breakthrough movies of the American independent cinema, Stranger than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch stayed right in the same minimalist, oddball, black-and-white groove. Down by Law takes place in Louisiana, where two losers (musicians Tom Waits and John Lurie) find themselves stuck in a jail cell together. One day they are joined by a boisterous Italian (Roberto Benigni), and the chemistry changes--suddenly an escape attempt is on the horizon. Conventional drama is not Jarmusch's intention; one of the emotional high points of this movie is the three guys marching around their prison cell shouting, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Yet the deadpan style creates its own humorous mood, underscored by melancholy (also underscored by the music of Lurie and the gravel-voiced songs of Waits). This was the first American film for Roberto Benigni, the Italian comedian (Life Is Beautiful), and he lights it up with his effervescent clowning. Jarmusch has said that Down by Law forms a loose trilogy with Stranger than Paradise and the subsequent Mystery Train, a triptych of disaffected, drifting life in the United States. Few filmmakers have ever surveyed ennui so entertainingly. --Robert Horton
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