Down by Law
1986 · TMDB 7.4
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Why it matters
Three mismatched cellmates escape a New Orleans jail and wander into a Louisiana bayou, where they find a path that leads nowhere and everywhere. Jarmusch's black-and-white fairy tale is a road movie as a dead-end dream.
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- Runtime
- 106 min
- Released
- 1986-09-20
- Studio
- Island Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.4
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