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Mo' Better Blues

Cast

Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito View All

Crew

Spike Lee (Director), Spike Lee (Writer) View All

Release: Aug. 3rd, 1990

Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes

Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's and Shadow's friendly rivalry on stage which spills into their professional relationship and threatens to tear apart the quartet.

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KeyserCorleone
This view is not only off the back of watching the second collab between Lee and Washington, but off of the back of Damien Chazelle's two music movies Whiplash and La La Land.

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