With his breakout film, Jarmusch established himself as a road-movie poet with an affinity for Americana at its most offbeat. It follows rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and his visiting 16 year-old cousin, Eva, as they drift from New York’s Lower East Side to the snowy expanses of Lake Erie and the beaches of Florida. A series of master-shot vignettes, this is a nonchalant masterpiece of deadpan comedy and perfectly calibrated minimalism.