Dead Man (1995)
- Starring:
- Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jim Jarmusch
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Category:
- Westerns
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A dark, bitter commentary on modern American life cloaked in the form of a surrealist western, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man stars Johnny Depp as William Blake, a newly-orphaned accountant who leaves his home in Cleveland to accept a job in the frontier town of Machine. Upon his arrival, Blake is told by the factory owner Dickinson (Robert Mitchum) that the job has already been filled. Dejectedly, he enters a nearby tavern, ultimately spending the night with a former prostitute. A violent altercation with the woman's lover (Gabriel Byrne), also Dickinson's son, leaves Blake a murderer as well as mortally wounded, a bullet lodged dangerously close to his heart. He flees into the wilderness, where a Native American named Nobody (Gary Farmer) mistakes Blake for the English poet William Blake and determines that he will be Blake's guide in his protracted passage into the spirit world. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 121 mins
Complete Cast:
- Johnny Depp - William Blake
- Lance Henriksen - Cole Wilson
- Robert Mitchum - John Dickinson
- Gabriel Byrne - Charlie Dickinson
- Crispin Glover - Train fireman
- Jared Harris - Benmont Tench
- Michelle Thrush - Nobody's Girlfriend
- Todd Pfeiffer - Trading Post Man No. 2
- Leonard Bowechop - Makah Villager
- Thomas Bettles - Young Nobody
- Gibby Haines - Man with Gun in Alley
- Mickey McGee - Bartender (Uncredited)
- John North - Mr. Olafsen
- Jimmie Ray Weeks - Marvin, Older Marshall
- Alfred Molina - Trading Post Missionary
- Mark Bringelson - Lee, Younger Marshall
- Gary Farmer - Nobody
- Michael Wincott - Conway Twill
- Mili Avital - Thel Russell
- Iggy Pop - Salvatore "Sally" Jenko
- Richard Boes - Man with Wrench
- Pete Schrum - Drunk
- Michael McCarty - Makah Villager
- Cecil Cheeka - Makah Villager
- Daniel Chas Stacy - Young Nobody
- George Duckworth - Man at End of Street
- John C. Pattison - Trading Post Man No. 1
- Johnny Pfeiffer - Man at Trading Post
- Mike Dawson - Old Man with Wanted Posters
- Billy Bob Thornton - Big George Drakoulious
- John Hurt - John Scholfield
- Eugene Byrd - Johnny "The Kid" Pickett
- Director(s):
- Jim Jarmusch
- Writer(s):
- Jim Jarmusch
- Producer(s):
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Violence, Adult Situations, Sexual Situations, Profanity, Questionable for Children, Brief Nudity, Adult Humor)
- Categories:
- Westerns
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- 1996 - Dead Man - National Society of Film Critics - Best Cinematography
- 1996 - Dead Man - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Cinematography
- 1996 - Dead Man - Screen International - Five Continents Award
