"Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" Custom Trailer

What do you do when you can't find a trailer for one of your favorite films? You make one of your own. I hope you enjoy my custom trailer for Robert Altman's "Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean". The film itself is out-of-print and has never been officially released on DVD (although there are VHS and Laserdisc copies around, as well as on Bootleg DVD). Perhaps someday it will once again see the light of day in an official video format.

Movie Description
With COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN, Robert Altman began to turn to theatrical plays as source material for his films, with the filmed plays STREAMERS and SECRET HONOR following in the wake of ...JIMMY DEAN by playwright Ed Graczyk. The film concerns a group of women who reunite in their hometown of McCarthy, Texas in 1975 to hold a twenty-year reunion of their James Dean fan club. In 1955, they were an excited group of high school graduates who eagerly anticipated their hero's arrival in a nearby town to film GIANT. As the story unfolds, the friends--Mona (Sandy Dennis), Sissy (Cher), Stella Mae (Kathy Bates), Edna Louise (Marta Heflin), and Juanita (Sudie Bond) reminisce fondly about the past, but when a mysterious woman arrives (Karen Black), a series of shocking revelations threatens to ruin the reunion. The actresses imbue their characters with a tragic honesty that makes their eventual confessions all the more heartbreaking and poignant (notably, Dennis's troubled Mona). Altman, who directed the play both on and off Broadway before deciding to film it, employs visual dissolves, and mirrors to add a cinematic layering to the production. The result is a powerful, sobering portrait of a group of women who allowed deception to take control of their lives.

Synopsis
A group of women friends--members of the James Dean fan club they formed in 1955 in McCarthy, Texas--hold their 20-year reunion at a "5 & Dime" drugstore. The different directions their lives have taken--and the varying degrees of success they have met with--creates numerous striking, insightful, and sometimes painful contrasts.

Film Notes
Robert Altman directed eighty performances of the play on and off Broadway before making the film.

The production was shot in super-16mm with a budget of $850,000 -- which is not a typical film format or budget for other than a low-budget independent feature film. Most cost considerably more and are shot in the industry standard of 35mm.

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Entertainment

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• Robert Altman
• Sandy Dennis
• Karen Black
• Cher
• Custom Trailer

[PlanetLobster]

Bow down to genius ....

[gymnastix]

And now the daughter of one of this film's stars has done the opposite gender equivalent of what Karen Black's character in this film did (possible Spoiler Alert!), making this film not only eerily prophetic, but resulting in a real-life, lesbian "Crying Game."

Life imitates art

[EuroTom1]

Fantastic.

[JaymoLACa]

Wow, great job, thx for posting!!

[VelvetRope46]

Great job... I always wanted to see a trailer for this film. This is very authentic and believable!

[SueSnell]

This is TERRIFIC! Thanks for making it - going to use for my film class. :)

[markpattonjoequalley]

So many memories, thank you.

[scorp8pus]

Fantastic job!!!!

Thank You.

[TheChuckjarvis]

wow! brings back some intense memories. One of my all time favorite movies.

Thanks a million.

[kamelion7]

All the cast were excellent but Sandy Dennis steals every scene for me!!!