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Mystery Train Movie Review

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Actors: Rick Aviles, Elizabeth Bracco, Masatoshi Nagase
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Mystery Train
This is a Jim Jarmusch directed film along the lines of "Night on Earth". Pretty funny, but not quite as funny as Night on Earth. Story of travelers coming to Memphis to see monuments of Elvis and that cross paths on a train.
--Diana, Resident Scholar




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Plot
Comedy, primarily Yes
Time/era of movie: - 1980's-1999
Polit/Social/Race/Gender activism Yes

Main Character
Events of movie makes character more... - sensitive - happy
Ethnicity/Nationality - Japanese
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Deep South
Misc setting - moving train

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Movie makes you feel... - full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing
Any profanity? - Some foul language
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