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Article: `Arizona Dream' loses itself in mirage of importance
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 10, 1995
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ARIZONA DREAM
Directed by: Emir Kusturica
Screenplay by: Kusturica, David Atkins
Starring: Johnny Depp, Lili Taylor, Faye Dunaway, Paulina
Porizkova, Jerry Lewis
At: Harvard Film Archive
Unrated
(This is an expanded version of the review published here
when this film premiered at last year's Boston Film
Festival.)
"Arizona Dream" is a very special kind of disaster, the kind that
only comes from an esteemed European director set loose in the United
States with a cast and a budget and absolutely no destination in
mind. It yanks Johnny Depp from a fish warden's job in New York back
to the desert, where his uncle Leo, played by Jerry Lewis, wants him
to assume the ...