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Paris, Texas

1984Movie2 h 25 minR

Drama
85
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb8.1Letterboxd4.4/5Metacritic817.6Rotten Tomatoes95%93%
85
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb8.1Letterboxd4.4/5Metacritic817.6Rotten Tomatoes95%93%

Summary

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Good for

  • Date night
  • Friends night
  • Teens

Skip it if

  • You want something to laugh at
  • You want fast pacing

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  • Breaks your heart.
  • Makes you care deeply.
  • Gives you goosebumps.
  • Leaves you longing.
  • Feels like real life.

Not for laughs, scares or adrenaline.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Tropes

"London, England" Syndromein 61 titlesPlayed straight with the movie title but subverted in-universe. A man is going around with a photograph telling people it is of Paris, even though it is clear that the photo shows a desert landscape.What the Hell Is That Accent?in 579 titlesNastassja Kinski doesn't quite master her character's Texan accent, and periodically lapses back into her native German one, creating a kind of weird hybrid dialect that's impossible to pin down.All 30 tropes

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