Based on the play directed by Robert Altman himself, the film adaption features the same principal cast of Cher, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis, Kathy Bates, and Mark Patton amongst others.
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean centers on the members of a fan club dedicated to cinema heartthrob James Dean. Twenty years after the actor’s tragic death, the now grown women reunite in a five-and-dime store in rural Texas. There, they reminisce on events of their youth, learning more about each other and how they’ve changed in the long years since.
35mm print courtesy of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
