Mystery Train (Full Frame)

VHS, R, 115 minutes, MGM

After the critical triumphs of "Stranger Than Paradise" and "Down By Law", director Jim Jarmusch was called ?the most arresting filmmaker to surface in the American cinema? by The New York Times. "Mystery Train" is a ?smart and curiously affecting? (The Nation) comedy, that is ?funny and thoroughly satisfying? (The New York Times)! Named after an Elvis Presley hit, "Mystery Train" interweaves three engrossing stories, all centering around the Presley legend and his beloved hometown of Memphis. As the characters? paths collide - through laughter, fear and fate - you can practically feel the presence of the King himself in every scene?and his legacy impressed on a generation of equally lost souls in ?this wry, brilliantly structured comedy? (Boxoffice). Set in Memphis, this engaging and clever tale interconnects three short stories where everybody is in hot pursuit of the elusive ?King? himself?Elvis!.