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May 10, 1996 · Johnny Depp stars as William Blake, an accountant who becomes a fugitive after killing a man in a frontier town. He meets Nobody, a mysterious Native American guide, and embarks on a spiritual journey of transformation and mysticism.
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- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
- Jim Jarmusch
- 1996-05-10
While decidedly not for all tastes, Dead Man marks an alluring change of pace for writer-director Jim Jarmusch that demonstrates an assured command of challenging material. Read Critics Reviews...
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- Jim Jarmusch
- R
- Johnny Depp
May 19, 2015 · William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named ...
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A review of Jim Jarmusch's Western fantasy film Dead Man, starring Johnny Depp as a man named William Blake who travels to the West and meets an Indian named Nobody. Ebert praises the cinematography, the acting, and the poetry, but criticizes the score and the plot.
Wounded and branded an outlaw, a young accountant named William Blake flees gunmen and travels the frontier. Nobody, an outcast Native American, aides Blake along a journey beyond the frailty of life as his physical existence grows thin.
A surreal and poetic western starring Johnny Depp as an accountant who becomes a gunslinger in the nineteenth-century American West. Directed by Jim Jarmusch and scored by Neil Young, Dead Man is a profound and unique revision of the western genre.