Dead Man

18 years before he played Tonto in the ill-fated THE LONE RANGER, Johnny Depp played a “stupid white man” from Cleveland in DEAD MAN, a transcendental 1995 Western by Akron-born Jim Jarmusch. Depp portrays a meek, 19th-century accountant named William Blake who journeys west and inadvertently becomes a wanted man. A wryly amusing Native American guide (Gary Farmer) takes him under his wing and leads him into uncharted territory. Crispin Glover, Iggy Pop, and Robert Mitchum head a great supporting cast. Neil Young did the music.