Mystery Train 1989  R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Cinque Lee, Nicoletta Braschi, Elizabeth Bracco, Sy Richardson, Rick Aviles, Steve Buscemi, Joe Strummer
Three stories are told, with the common thread being a rundown hotel in Memphis and its two-person staff who watch after the assorted strange people that come and go. Segments include two touring Japanese teens obsessed with 1950s rock 'n roll; an Italian woman, who is taking her dead husband home, sees the ghost of Elvis; and three men who stay at the hotel after too much to drink results in a shooting.
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Straight to Hell 1987  R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alex Cox
Cast: Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude, Courtney Love, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Xander Berkeley, Jim Jarmusch, Miguel Sandoval, Gloria Miralles Ruiz
This film comes close to being the most inane movie ever made. In this satire on Westerns, three outlaws and Velma (Courtney Love) rob a bank and then hide out in a dusty, old town.
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| 1. Mystery Train (1989)
2. Straight to Hell (1987)
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