After his disastrous Popeye , Robert Altman rebuilt his credibility by making a series of small-budget movies based on plays, starting with Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean . Cher credits him with launching her acting career, starring alongside an ensemble of women who play members of a James Dean fan club reuniting in 1975, on the twentieth anniversary of hearing on the radio that he had died. It takes place in a small shop in a podunk West Texas town–the ki