Stranger Than Paradise Page #6

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


- All right. Okay.

- It could be fun. No?

All right. I just don't understand

why she's treating me like a baby.

"Baby."

What...

Are we going to the movies?

Go ahead! Go ahead.

Hey!

Are we gonna go to the movies?

A blank screen on which to project

the images so ably devised by our friends...

- Well, thanks for the ride, fellas.

- Hey, thanks for paying for us too, Billy.

Okay. Hey, uh, Eva,

you wanna walk me to my door?

Okay.

I'll be right back.

"Eva, do you wanna

walk me to my door?"

Man, what are we doing here?

I don't know.

- Hey, Willie.

- What?

You wanna stick around much longer

here in Cleveland?

- Why? You wanna go?

- I don't know. Yeah. Kind of.

We could go back tomorrow

or the next day or somethin'.

You know, it's funny.

You come to someplace new,

and everything looks just the same.

No kiddin', Eddie.

Whew.

It's so cold here.

Yeah. I kinda wanna

get out of here.

Wish Aunt Lotte

would just speak English.

She's so stubborn. It's funny.

Just like the rest of the family.

Yeah.

Is that guy Billy all right?

- Yeah, he's a nice friend.

- Yeah.

- Let me tell you a joke. All right?

- Mm-hmm.

There's three guys

and they're walking down the street.

One guy says to the other one,

"Hey, your shoe's untied."

He says, "I know that."

And they walk- No.

There's two guys,

they're walking down the street...

and one says to the other, "Your shoe's untied,"

and the other guy says, "I know that."

They walk a couple blocks further,

they see a third friend, and he says...

"H... Your shoe's unti...

Your shoe's un -"

Uh, I can't remember this joke.

But it's good.

- I'm sure.

- Yeah.

It's a pretty good game, right?

I am the winner.

Hey, now, that's three times in a row

you've won.

- I am lucky in card. I win every time.

- That's amazing.

I'll get it.

Hello? Hi.

How you doing, Billy?

I'm okay.

Oh, yeah. Sh*t, I forgot.

I can't.

My cousin and his friend are leaving

tomorrow. I gotta be with them tonight.

No, I really should.

Oh, come on, Billy!

You can understand that, can't you?

Oh, don't give me that.

You know they're not more important.

It's just that they're leaving.

Come on, Billy.

God!

Just call me next week. All right?

We'll talk about it.

Okay? Bye.

- I am the winner.

- Oh, not again.

- So, you guys wanna go see the big lake?

- Anything but this.

- Well, I don't know -

- Come on, Eddie.

- Go and jump in the lake.

- Aunt Lotte!

Let's go.

- You'll play later with me?

- Yeah. Yeah.

- I wanna win at least once.

- Okay. I give you a chance, let you win.

- We'll see you later.

- Okay.

Well, this is it. Lake Erie.

Man, look at all this snow.

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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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