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Synopsis: A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along with a friend, they eventually end up visiting their aunt in the wastelands of Cleveland and then proceed to Florida where they lose all their money gambling before unwittingly gaining a fortune.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
Production: Criterion Collection
  8 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
R
Year:
1984
89 min
1,154 Views


What time does she get out?

We gotta pick her up at, uh...

- Okay?

- Yeah, that sounds good.

You like it?

It's very good. Yeah, it's delicious.

Thank you.

As for you,you're confined

to campus again for the rest of the semester.

Al, pack your things.

I'm calling your father to come get you.

No. No, hold it.

Now, look. Eric is the cause of this whole thing.

Now, what's gonna happen to him?

Man, eat your soup.

You just haven't figured out the system.

Here she comes.

- May I help you?

- Yeah.

Willie! Eddie!

I told you she'd remember me.

I can't believe it!

- What are you guys doing here?

- Well, we're on vacation, like, you know.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- You came from New York?

- Yeah. We have a car and everything.

- Oh, yeah?

- We borrowed it.

Are you in trouble?

Mm-mmm. No.

How did you guys find me here?

We went to Aunt Lotte's house,

and she told us that you were here.

- Oh. You already saw her, huh?

- Yeah.

So, can you stay for a few days?

- Yeah, we could. Why not? I don't know.

- Yeah.

Oh, I'm so happy to see you.

You want a hot dog?

- No, no.

- No.

- You already ate, right?

- Yeah.

So, I have a little more work to do-

like, 20 minutes.

- Can you wait for me?

- Mm-hmm.

- Yeah. We came to pick you up.

- All right. I'll hurry up. Okay?

Yeah, but I think we should wait in the car,

'cause I don't like it in here.

- Neither do I.

- Yeah?

- All right, I'll hurry up.

- Okay.

- Just 20 minutes.

- Yep.

Come on.

- I told you she'd remember me.

- Well, good.

So, anyway...

anyways, it seems it's in the cards that I might

be getting a raise down at the gas station.

- Uh-huh.

- Hey, you said you'd go with me...

to the movies the other night.

You wanna go see Space Wizards

or that foreign flick down at the Olympia?

Uh, Days Without Sun.

You wanna see that?

I don't know.

Isn't there a kung fu movie?

I can go and check.

We'll see.

Yeah, check and call me up.

Okay?

- Yeah.

- All right. Bye.

Bye, Eva.

- Hi.

- How's it goin'?

How you doin'?

You know, while we're in Cleveland, Willie,

why don't we go see the Cavaliers?

- Oh, they have a terrible team.

- Well, so what?

They're like 0 and 48

or something like that.

Yeah, but we're not doing anything.

Well, what do you wanna do?

I don't know.

I'm going to the movies.

What?

What are you telling me?

I know what I wanna do.

No, you don't tell me what to do.

I'm not a baby.

I don't need them to babysit me.

No, I don't need them to babysit me.

I'm a big girl. All right?

Uh, hey. Hey, hey. Hey, Eva.

Why don't we just...

Aunt Lotte? Aunt Lotte, please.

We could go to the -

We came all this way to see you.

We could go to the movies with you, right?

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Jim Jarmusch

James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing such films as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. more…

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