Arizona Dream

Arizona Dream

1994 "A rebellious young man. With his own version of the future. And his own fantasy of love."
Arizona Dream
Arizona Dream

Arizona Dream

7.2 | 2h22m | R | en | Fantasy

An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles

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7.2 | 2h22m | R | en | Fantasy , Drama , Comedy | More Info
Released: September. 09,1994 | Released Producted By: Canal+ , Hachette Première Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles

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Cast

Johnny Depp , Jerry Lewis , Faye Dunaway

Director

Lisa M. Kittredge-Rodriguez

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Canal+ , Hachette Première

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s_h_a_n_t_e_l_e Absolutely crazy movie in a good meaning! He wants to catch a fish, she wants to fly, her daughter wants to become a turtle. They found each other. You just can't describe this movie with words, but maybe with music by Goran Bregovic. Dreams...should they come true? They are so different, but so real. "Two wrong don't make a right". It is just a feast! The movie is spinning, draws the audience into the whirlpool of events, characters & their dreams. There is not one mentally balanced character! Complete madness and it's beautiful. Personally for me all this movie is about dreams. I fell in love with the intro, "if you want to look at someone's soul, you have to look at their dreams". After that it's hard to decide whether you should laugh or cry for the rest of the movie.
bkoganbing I don't think any current player has put his personal stamp on more quirky characters than Johnny Depp. Whether it's Edward Scissorhands or Ed Wood, Depp worked hard to get away from the teen idol image that he could have been plagued with his whole life from 21 Jump Street. There's a lot besides Scissorhands and Wood including his most popular character of Captain Jack Sparrow. But in Arizona Dream I think Depp let quirkiness for quirkiness's sake takeover this surreal project. Johnny plays a young and contented kid who works for the Department of fish and game who left his Arizona roots after his parents were killed in a car crash in an automobile driven by his uncle. The uncle is played by Jerry Lewis who got out without a scratch. Depp's feelings about his uncle are ambivalent, his uncle was a beloved figure yet he also blames him for the crash.He fled to New York where he took the job tagging fish, but comes back to Arizona ostensibly for his uncle's wedding. In reality Lewis wants Depp to work for him as a Cadillac dealer along with Vincent Gallo who is also like a surrogate son.Pretty soon Depp is also involved with a mother/daughter pair of quirky sexual piranhas in Faye Dunaway and Lili Taylor. When Gallo joins in it gets truly surreal and it ends badly for one of them.If there are some life lessons to be learned in Arizona Dreams as some found, I missed them all together. Some good talent, some interesting performances, but the film as a total package missed the mark for me.
love_platipus This movie is kind of like across between watching a foreign film, one made in a culture completely alien to your own, and watching someone else's dreams.It is such an bizarre film that I doubt some people would even be able to get through it. I myself had to take it in two parts. But many parts of it are strangely beautiful, and there are a few moments in the latter half of the film of astonishing power.Further more, Kusturica's imagery is absolutely stunning. From a shot of Axel in a red rain coat looking out over the sea near the beginning to one of him lying down with a litter of abandoned puppies in a empty shop at the end, these will stay with you.And of course Kusturica couldn't have a better subject than Depp. He was going on thirty when this came out, but he's has never seemed more innocent. To be honest, its a flawless performance. I don't hand that out a lot, but, in a deeply flawed movie, he's perfect. He never once lets us out of Axel's dreamy, strange world. There's no "winking at the camera" no matter how much it may love him. He gives the movie an emotional center.Its a film that some people will hate, a few will love, and most will simply be perplexed by. Personally, I think you should watch it, not necessarily because you'll like it, but to have an opinion on it.
FilmCriticLalitRao Serbian director Emir Kusturica is a real entertainer whose films not only have serious messages but also have the potential to make viewers happy.His American debut film Arizon Dream is pure magic.It is one of the most famous American films made with European sensibilities.What we get to see in the film is the possibility to have a bemused look at the difficult lives of innocent dreamers and their idiosyncratic dreams.The reason why this film succeeds is because of its powerful cast which includes the most influential artists of American cinema.There are great actors like Johnny Depp,Jerry Lewis,Faye Dunaway and Vincent Gallo.The best thing about this film is the exploration of all things American.This is the reason why we get to see our leading players watch a film by Alfred Hitchcock which they even try to imitate.The definition of love also seems to have changed with this film.This fact cannot be explained as this film would have to be seen to understand that.All in all,a great film which needs to be seen more than once.