Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (film)

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Note is a 1982 film adaptation of Ed Graczyks 1976 play of the same name. The Broadway and screen versions were directed by Robert Altman, and starred Sandy Dennis, Cher, Mark Patton, Karen Black, Sudie Bond and Kathy Bates.

On September 30, 1975, an allfemale fan club called the Disciples of James Dean meets inside a Woolworths fiveanddime store in McCarthy, Texas,90 to honor the twentieth anniversary of the actors death. The store is 62miles away from Marfa, where Dean filmed Giant in 1955. Inside, store owner Juanita prepares for another day on the job while listening to Gospel music on the radio, and also calls for Jimmy Dean by name. Meanwhile, one of the Disciples, Sissy, comes in late after helping out at the truck stop Juanita remarks that more members could arrive soon. Another one, Mona, is taking a late bus.After Sissy worries about the weather 118 degrees in the shade, a flashback to a stormy night in 1955 occurs. Coming inside for shelter, Sissy asks about three friends of hers Mona, Sydney and Joseph Qualley or Joe for short.131 Joe is busy stocking up some new issues of Photoplay magazine Mona arrives late due to the weather. To Juanitas chagrin, Sissy, Mona and Joe go up at the counter and begin singing the doowop tune Sincerely, which Juanita opposes, preferring to listen only to Gospel music. ........

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