Down by Law (film)

Down by Law is a 1986 blackandwhite independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni.

Three men, previously unknown to each other, are arrested in New Orleans and placed in the same cell. Both Zack Waits, a disc jockey, and Jack Lurie, a pimp, have been set up, neither having committed the crime for which they have been arrested. Their cellmate Bob Benigni, in his first international role, an Italian tourist who understands minimal English, was imprisoned for manslaughter.Zack and Jack soon come to blows and thereafter avoid speaking to each other. Bob has an irrepressible need for conversation. He hatches a plan to escape, and before long the three are on the run through the swamp surrounding the prison. Hopelessly lost and with a simmering hatred between Jack and Zack almost causing the party to split up, they are brought together by Bobs ability to provide food. The trio eventually chance across a house in the forest, the residence of Nicoletta Braschi. Bob and Nicoletta instantly fall in love, and Bob decides to stay with her in the forest. Zack and Jack go their separate waysan unspoken, begrudging friendship hanging between them as they part. ........

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