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

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Date: January 01, 1982 to December 31, 1982
Dates Note: 1982
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: the play by Ed Graczyk
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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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Robert Altman at 100
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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.

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