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Director:
Writer:
Jim Jarmusch (written by)
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Release Date:
7 November 1989 (USA) more
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Plot:
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 8 nominations more
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Podcast: Tom Noonan (The House of the Devil)
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Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control Retro Poster
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Masatoshi Nagase ... Jun (segment "Far From Yokohama")
Youki Kudoh ... Mitsuko (segment "Far From Yokohama")
Screamin' Jay Hawkins ... Night Clerk (segment "Far From Yokohama")
Cinqué Lee ... Bellboy (segment "Far From Yokohama")
Rufus Thomas ... Man in Station (segment "Far From Yokohama")

Jodie Markell ... Sun Studio Guide (segment "Far From Yokohama")
William Hoch ... Tourist Family (segment "Far From Yokohama")
Pat Hoch ... Tourist Family (segment "Far From Yokohama")
Joshua Elvis Hoch ... Tourist Family (segment "Far From Yokohama")
Reginald Freeman ... Conductor (segment "Far From Yokohama")
Beverly Prye ... Streetwalker (segment "Far From Yokohama")

Nicoletta Braschi ... Luisa (segment "A Ghost")
Elizabeth Bracco ... Dee Dee - Charlie's Sister (segment "A Ghost")

Sy Richardson ... Newsvendor (segment "A Ghost")
Tom Noonan ... Man in Arcade Diner (segment "A Ghost")
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
One Night in Memphis (USA) (original script title)
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Runtime:
110 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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This film contains some of the last known footage of Stax Records. more
Quotes:
Night Clerk: [both stare at a plum on the counter, neither saying a thing] I don't think you should eat that thing.
Bellboy: Yeah, you're probably right.
Night Clerk: You gonna eat it?
Bellboy: No, I'm not gonna eat that thing.
[at this, the night clerk casually reaches over and eats the plum in one bite]
Bellboy: Hey...you ate my plum!
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Movie Connections:
References Down by Law (1986) more
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An outsider's look at America, 16 September 2000
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Author: rdoyle29 from Winnipeg, Canada

"Mystery Train" is a witty look at different aspects of one of the crazes of our time, the worship of Elvis Presley. The cast includes cult performers like Tom Noonan (the serial killer in Michael Mann's "Manhunter"), Steve Buscemi, and singer Tom Waits (heard on the radio), and it is directed by one of America's leading independent directors. "Mystery Train" is possibly Jim Jarmusch's most immaculate film, and though the movie gets steadily darker in its comic tone, it is his least bleak work to date. The patterning is precise, the film growing richer as the three strands are finally woven together, or perhaps unwoven, as the characters go their separate ways. Robbie Muller, the great Dutch cameraman who shot Alex Cox's "Repo Man" and Wim Wenders' "Paris, Texas", once more brings an outsider's perspective to the American landscape, giving the night scenes and hotel interiors a Hopperesque look and endowing a dilapidated section of Memphis with an elegaic sadness.

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