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Down by Law is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jim Jarmusch released in USA on 3 october 1986 with Tom Waits
Down by Law (1986)
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Add to a movie listDown by Law is a 1986 black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni.
The film centers on the arrest, incarceration, and escape from jail of three men. It discards jailbreak film conventions by focusing on the interaction between the convicts rather than on the mechanics of the escape. A key element in the film is Robby Müller's slow-moving camerawork, which captures the architecture of New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou to which the cellmates escape.
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Three men, previously unknown to each other, are arrested in New Orleans and placed in the same cell. Both Zack (Waits), a disc jockey, and Jack (Lurie), a pimp, have been set up, neither having committed the crime for which they have been arrested. Their cellmate Bob (Benigni, in his first international role), an Italian tourist who understands minimal English, was imprisoned for manslaughter.Actors
Tom Waits
(Zack)
John Lurie
(Jack)
Roberto Benigni
(Roberto)
Nicoletta Braschi
(Nicoletta)
Ellen Barkin
(Laurette)
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