DVD

Mystery Train

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Item Details

Genre

International Movies

Catalogue Number

PPB111505

Number of Discs

Label

Paramount

Region Code

2 (Japan)

Release Country

Japan

Resolution

NTSC

Format

DVD

Director

Jim Jarmusch

Music

John Lurie

Cast

Kudo Yuki, Joe Strummer, Nagase Masatoshi, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Elizabeth Bracco, Sy Richardson, Tom Noonan, Stephen Jones, Steve Buscemi, Nicoletta Braschi, Rufus Thomas

Content Description

Written and directed by the ever-unpredictable Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train is comprised of three short anecdotes involving foreign tourists in Tennessee. Each story is set in a fleabag Memphis hotel which has been redressed as a "tribute" to Elvis Presley. Story #1 involves two Japanese tourists whose devotion to Elvis blinds them of everything around them. Story #2 finds eternal victim Nicoletta Braschi sharing a room with stone-broke Elizabeth Bracco and having her problems solved by a spectral vision of The King. And story #3 offers the further misadventures of Bracco, her no-good boyfriend and her dysfunctional family. Any film that features Screamin' Jay Hawkins as a hotel clerk has us squarely in its pocket.