Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave
773.871.6604
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Dead Man
- When
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Friday Feb 6, 2009 (midnight)
Saturday Feb 7, 2009 (midnight)
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- Price
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$9.25
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Jim Jarmusch's mystical western suffered an inglorious reception at the hands of a lackluster Miramax marketing campaign and critics expecting hipster riffs in the mold of Strangers in Paradise. No matter — the film now stands as an evocative statement of independence. Johnny Depp stars as a Cleveland accountant named William Blake who travels to the frontier on the promise of a job. The funereal undertones of his voyage are evident from the opening: an elliptical train sequence in which Blake's fellow passengers pick off buffalo with their rifles. His ensuing relationship with a wizened Native American named Nobody is one of the one of the more memorable pairings in American movies.
