Down by Law (2-DVD, Criterion Collection) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 22, 2002
  • Originally Released: 1986
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Rating: 10/10 -- Every single incident in the film is meaningful. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Mar 3, 2008
Rating: 4/5 -- Jim Jarmusch's uneven but stylish comédie noire is an astute mixture of prison picture, road movie and downbeat screwball. Full Review
Radio Times
Sep 12, 2014
Rating: 5/5 -- Mutual irritation merges into grudging friendship, and the wit manages to be both broad and smart, soulful and silly, subtle and raucous, all at the same time. Full Review
Total Film
Sep 8, 2014
...A victory of form over content...
Sight and Sound
Mar 1, 1987
...Jarmusch is an American original....[DOWN BY LAW is] an unqualified delight...
New York Times
Sep 19, 1986
...An inkily comic dream of a movie....Few contemporary directors use unoccupied space and wordless glances with the comic wallop of Jarmusch; he's perfected a kind of formalist shaggy-dog style utterly his own...
Los Angeles Times
Oct 3, 1986
Rating: 7/10 -- Perhaps it's not what you expect from a prison movie, but Jim Jarmusch has always adhered to his own personal vision. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Aug 21, 2012

Product Description:

Jim Jarmusch's quirky follow-up to his groundbreaking STRANGER THAN PARADISE is a comic fable about finding the American dream in the most unlikely of places. After being thrown out of the house by his girlfriend, Zack (Tom Waits), an out-of-work DJ, takes a job driving a stolen car with a body in the trunk across the state line. He is arrested and put into a cell with Jack (John Lurie), a pimp who's been busted for recruiting a minor. The trio is completed when Roberto (the always hysterical Roberto Benigni), an Italian tourist who is arrested for killing a man while playing cards, joins them in their cell. Eventually, Roberto succeeds in convincing Zack and Jack to break out of jail with him. But when they do, the escapees find themselves lost in the bayou with no salvation in sight. It isn't until they land at the small home of an Italian immigrant (Nicoletta Braschi) that Zack, Jack, and Roberto learn to appreciate the beauty the world has to offer. Robby Muller's gorgeously contrasted black-and-white photography adds an artistic dimension to Jarmusch's film, which only heightens the performances by the three leads.

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  • UPC: 037429172025
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