Sometimes, in life, we’re forced to be with people we don’t immediately get along with, like in the classroom, the workplace, or, if you’re unlucky, in a jail cell. Down by Law is black-and-white drama focused on three men in a jail cell, two of them outright hating each other, but not as much as they hate their third fellow foreign inmate for being so smiley all the time. It’s a funny adventure, made more funny as they snipe at each other, but even if the two Americans supposedly hate each other, it’s still a charming friendship that we can’t help but root for, one made simple and straightforwardly by director Jim Jarmusch.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Actor: Billie Neal, David Dahlgren, Eliott Keener, Ellen Barkin, John Lurie, Joy N. Houck Jr., Nicoletta Braschi, Richard Boes, Roberto Benigni, Rockets Redglare, Timothea, Tom Waits, Vernel Bagneris
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Rating: R
