Losers' Club comedy by Jim Jarmusch, with a befitting small-change budget, about an unemployed deejay and an apathetic pimp who are placed in the same prison cell in Louisiana, soon to be joined by an Italian immigrant with a do-it-yourself English phrase book ("Not enough room here to swing a cat"). The characters are less individual than in Jarmusch's first film, Stranger Than Paradise, while the pace is no less slow. This, however, affords plenty of time for appreciation of posture, facial expression, voice. Tom Waits performs interestingly in all these departments, particularly with his turned-away body positions and a "radio" voice to be turned on and off at will. John Lurie (from Stranger Than ... ) is more limited, and seems miscast. And Roberto Benigni, an Italian stand-up comic, is merely conventional with his fractured-English bits. Robby Müller's black-and-white photography is, particularly compared to his work for Wim Wenders, a shade dark and a shade arty -- but it's a B-movie kind of artiness and not too burdensome. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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