Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 2
Inscrutably strange, yet undeniably compelling, Arizona Dream is anchored by magnetic performances from Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
Inscrutably strange, yet undeniably compelling, Arizona Dream is anchored by magnetic performances from Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway.
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Director Emir Kusturica and screenwriter David Atkins crafted this absurdist comedy in which Johnny Depp plays Axel Blackmer, who lives in New York State and is obsessed with fish. He tags fish and monitors their habits for a living, but his greatest curiosity is when and how they dream. Axel's uncle, Leo Sweetie (Jerry Lewis) would prefer Axel take over the family business, a Cadillac dealership in Tucson, Arizona; against his better judgment, Axel drives from New York to Arizona to check out
Jan 6, 1993 Wide
Mar 21, 1995
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (3) | DVD (5)
Kusturica grafts his sometimes unwieldy Europe-inflected concerns onto brash American landscapes with mixed results. Much is made of dreams that, either spoken of at length or illustrated, are offered in lieu of character development.
Even at its full length, showing off a more seductive rhythm and the buoyant humanism that is this director's calling card, it remains as ripe a subject for therapy as for criticism.
Depp yet again reveals his unique ability to be the seductive yet compassionate idealist, discovering strength in tenderness.
You can't stop watching because nobody in the audience, and possibly nobody on the screen, has any idea what's going to happen next.
Imagination is a gift. It bestows power, insight and the ability to dream. It takes courage to dream on a big scale, which is what Emir Kusturica does in Arizona Dream, a wonderfully absurdist comedy...
Someday this fascinating curio by a major European filmmaker will get its full due; this disc doesn't make the attempt.
Lewis is only slightly awful, and he and Depp have a nice rapport; Dunaway gives a particularly juicy performance; and Taylor is simply amazing, seemingly able to transform herself physically for every role she plays.
A peculiar and entrancing gem.
The first 'American' film by the director of Time of the Gypsies is every bit as bizarre and imaginative as his earlier work, although it's also maddeningly indulgent and erratic.
A trule bizarre, surreal fable, flaunting yet another eccentric performance from the very young and handsome Johnny Depp; Faye Dunaway, as his love interest, and Lili Tomlin are also good.
David Lynch, you've got a target on your back. Compelling and strange, worth seeking out if you can find it (which ain't easy).
Downright odd comedy that gets better with age.
Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway must enjoy working together. Perhaps they also enjoy making incomprehensibly inane movies, because that is what Arizona Dream is.
There is so much to like in Arizona Dream that you can't help wondering why you don't like it better.
A young New Yorker is kidnapped by his brother to attend his uncle's wedding, only to fall for an eccentric older woman obsessed with the idea of flight. Arizona Dream is perfectly titled; this film is exactly as much fun as somebody describing one of their dreams to you. For two and a quarter hours. The whole thing is
May 25, 2007
Super Reviewer
Axel: But what's the point of breathing if somebody already tells you the difference between an apple and a bicycle? If I bite a bicycle and ride an apple, then I'll know the difference. Arizona Dream is much like a dream as it jumps from scene to scene and we don't know what happened in between. It is a very odd
June 25, 2011
Super Reviewer
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