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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Robert Altman
United States, 1982

Restored 35mm Archival Print

featuring

Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black, Kathy Bates,

Robert Altman directed Ed Graczyk’s stage play Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and subsequently adapted it for the screen. Set in 1975 and starring Sandy Dennis, Cher, and Karen Black, the story relates the twentieth reunion of “The Disciples of James Dean” fan club. They meet at the local hangout in a small Texas town, near where Giant was shot in 1955. The soda fountain waitress seems the same, but the fan club members have gotten older, some successful, others beaten down. Each recounts (often in flashbacks) their dreams, aspirations, and failures of the past decades.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Ed Graczyk
Based On

  • the play by Ed Graczyk

Cinematographer
  • Pierre Mignot
Print Info
  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 109 mins
Source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
Permission
  • Paramount Pictures
Additional Info
  • 35mm print courtesy of the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funded by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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