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Synopsis
Auteur Jim Jarmusch, ( Down By Law, Stranger Than Paradise), and Lurie hunt the most dangerous creature in the sea --the shark. Jarmusch ponders the existential question, "Why am I here?" Lurie, however, approaches the situation with insane zeal. Jacques Cousteau on LSD. After destroying their car, Lurie and singer/actor Tom Waits partake in an invigorating canoe trip across the island. Waits gets seasick but heroically agrees to fish again for red snapper, which he puts in his pants.
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Review
Perhaps the last thing viewers would expect from a hipster so bound to the "downtown" scene as John Lurie has been the last two decades would be a fishing show. But Lurie--actor, painter, and leader of the jazz combo the Lounge Lizards--packs up the rods, buys the bait, and somehow convinces filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law) and musician Tom Waits to join him on the water. Volume 1 features Jarmusch and Lurie hunting sharks off the coast of Long Island. Odd, offbeat, and more than a touch insane, Lurie and Jarmusch manage to smoke a lot of cigarettes, ponder the mysteries of life, and actually hook their own private Jaws. With musician Tom Waits in Jamaica, things just get weirder. The evening before their excursion, the duo finds themselves roped into a poker game with residents of the small village where they're staying. The previous night's fun clearly plays itself out the next morning as Waits suffers in hilarious agony. By the end of the trip, Waits has composed a couple of spontaneous sea chanteys and somehow ended up with a fish down his pants. Obviously, this is not your father's fishing show! --S. Duda
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