Funeral Parade Queer Film Society is proud to present Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Robert Altman’s melodramatic meditation on nostalgia, aging, and female friendship.

Twenty years after his death, the “Disciples of James Dean” reunite at a Woolworth’s five-and-dime store in the small town of McCarthy, Texas. Through the film’s complex flashback structure, we see the Disciples as both wide-eyed teenagers in 1955 and disillusioned adults in 1975, with their reunion prompting reflections on the disappointments, frustrations, and changes they’ve experienced – none more so than Joanne (Karen Black), who the gang last knew as Joe (Mark Patton). Featuring stellar performances from Cher, Sandy Dennis, and Kathy Bates, Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is one of Altman’s most moving and underrated films, as well as a landmark piece of onscreen transgender representation.