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Movie Overview
Cast
• John Lurie
• Richard Edson
• Eszter Balint
Director
• Jim Jarmusch
MPAA Rating
R
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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"Jarmusch constructs from basic ingredients a complex of narrative symmetry and existential ennui pointing to something far more resonant than the sum of its parts."  Eye for Film  Anton Bitel

3/5
"A whimsical picaresque tale."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

4/5
"the American Dream inverted, that its characters are carefree is a by-product not of sharing in the Dream, but of dealing with life on the margins."  Filmcritic.com  Jay Antani

3.5/5
"The movie is not about plot. It is about mood, and to a lesser extent about character."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

"Its characters’ vacant aspirations are equated by Stranger Than Paradise’s lack of conventional purpose – this is the film’s idiosyncratic strength."  Not Coming to a Theater Near You  Rumsey Taylor

"... like a French New wave film by way of Bela Tarr, directed with a hipster American comic sensibility and an outsider's fascination with the details of the everyday."  Turner Classic Movies Online  Sean Axmaker
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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