Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) on Netflix
The Disciples of James Dean reunite at a Texas five-and-dime in 1975, twenty years after the actor's death. Juanita, Sissy and Mona, the members still in McCarthy, are arranging the reunion.
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In 1975 in McCarthy, Texas, the Disciples of James Dean hold a reunion at the Woolworth five-and-dime on the twentieth anniversary of the actor's death. The club was formed by teenagers in the mid 1950s, when Dean and other stars were in Marfa, sixty miles away, filming Giant. Juanita, who took over running the store after her husband Sidney died, Sissy, and Mona are arranging the get-together; they have not kept in touch with the other members. Mona has a son, Jimmy Dean, who is approaching twenty.
Cast
- Gena Ramselas Teenager
- Ruth Milleras Teenager
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
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- Robert Altman shot the film in nineteen days on a single set, a "redressed" version of its Broadway counterpart, using Super 16 equipment later converted to 35 mm. For the flashbacks he built a double set with two-way mirrors controlled by computerized lighting, which proved problematic for him and for critics.
- Altman refused to let any major U.S. studio handle the film because of the problems he had with 20th Century-Fox over his 1979 production HealtH. He instead enlisted Cinecom Pictures, an independent distributor in New York City, and it became that company's first release.
- Playwright Ed Graczyk said in a 2014 interview that the film's five-and-dime is actually an "H.L. Kressmont Five and Dime", inspired by the real-life S.H. Kress & Co. chain.
