4K UHD Review – Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

After scoring a minor hit with his oddball take on 1980’s “Popeye,” director Robert Altman retreated to more manageable professional opportunities, spending a chunk of the 1980s bringing stage plays to the screen. 1982’s “Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” is part of this career redirection, reuniting Altman with his Broadway staging of Ed Graczyk’s 1976 play. The original theatrical production didn’t find a sustained audience after it debuted, but the material is an interesting fit for a cinematic adaptation, with the helmer managing to preserve the atmosphere of the stage while intensifying dramatics, taking viewers on a strange journey of relationships and revelations during a particularly lively reunion of James Dean fans in small-town Texas. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com