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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Profanity Movie Release: 1989 DVD Release: 03/28/2000 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 50 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 8 Genres: Comedy Drama, Urban Comedy

Written and directed by the ever-unpredictable Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train is comprised of three short anecdotes involving foreign tourists in Tennessee. Each story is set in a fleabag Memphis hotel which has been redressed as a "tribute" to Elvis Presley. Story #1 involves two Japanese tourists whose devotion to '50s American rock music blinds them to everything around them. Story #2 finds eternal victim Nicoletta Braschi sharing a room with stone-broke Elizabeth Bracco and having her problems solved by a spectral vision of The King. And story #3 offers the further misadventures of Bracco, her no-good boyfriend and her dysfunctional family. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Masatoshi Nagase - Jun
Youki Kudoh - Mitzuko
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Night Clerk
Nicoletta Braschi - Luisa
Elizabeth Bracco - Dee Dee
Cinqué Lee - Bellboy
Joe Strummer - Johnny
Rufus Thomas - Man in Station

The widescreen Mystery Train DVD offers very little in the special features department. Aside from a picture disc and 24 optional scene selections, there isn't much to it. Most of the items that would normally appear on the DVD are included in a "Collectible Behind-the-Scenes" booklet. The back page offers a list of scene selections while the center spread has a cast list, film trivia, and a few short paragraphs about director Jim Jarmusch's vision for the movie. The DVD features Dolby Digital Stereo Surround Sound and offers French and English subtitles. ~ Anna Lazowski, All Movie Guide