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The movie is art and borders on art-film pretentiousness here and there, but there's no question that it's also mesmerizing and sexy.
David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle
Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean
2012 · 1h 33m · Unrated
Drama
Directed by
Matthew Mishory
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Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean
Overview
Part period melodrama, part film noir, part 50s road movie "JOSHUA TREE, 1951" is a portrait of screen legend and outsider icon James Dean as you have never seen him before.
Director and cast
- Matthew Mishory Director
- James Preston as James Dean
- Dan Glenn as The Roommate
- Clare Grant as Beverly
- Edgar Morais as Franco
- Erin Daniels as The Roommate's Mother
- Rafael Morais as Johny
- Darri Ingolfsson as James DeWeerd
- Clint Catalist as Johnny the Bartender
- Tony Herbert as The Officer
- David Pevsner as The Acting Teacher
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A prologue featuring French poet Rimbaud underlines Mishory's vision of the American actor as part of a line of iconoclastic artists. But his pre-fame Dean seems more sullen brat than talented maverick.
Alissa Simon, Variety
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