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Genres:
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Drama /
Music /
Music
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Director:
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John Sayles
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Actors:
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson,
Sean Patrick Thomas,
Yaya DaCosta,
Daryl Edwards,
Gary Clark Jr.,
Mable John,
Nagee Clay,
Absalom Adams,
Arthur Lee Williams,
Danny Glover,
Lisa Gay Hamilton,
Charles S. Dutton,
Vondie Curtis-Hall,
Stacy Keach,
Davenia McFadden
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Duration:
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124 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)78
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Plot Summary:
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1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton earn. It's a blow up b coddle-or-separate oneself a demolish weekend for the Honeydripper Causeuse and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Cut off" Purvis. Inscrutable in encumbered to the liquor fetter, the chicken man, and the lessor, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the way. After laying supplied his regular talent, blues singer Bertha Mae, Tyrone announces to his sidekick Maceo that he has hired the famous electric guitar trouper, Guitar Sam, in ... support of a special anecdote night only gig: squeeze em in and save the club. On the day of the brag, the train arrives and Guitar Sam is no where to be rest. Tyrone is forced to captivate drastic action. He makes a deal with Sheriff Pugh to release Sonny, the kid who hopped off a freight railway carriage here in Melodiousness, and turned up in the associate claiming he could decry the guitar as well as any Guitar Sam. Tyrone cleans Sonny up and launches a last ditch stratagem to pass dippy the young guitar picker as Guitar Sam ethical fancy enough to plate the lights and run off with cash box. When Sonny takes the stage and launches into his from the word go scalding electric licks, Tyrone will learn if it's lights excuse for the Honeydripper or if his luck has changed: he might just be another clap in irons saved by rock n' roll.
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Honeydripper
John AndersonJohn Sayles the storyteller and John Sayles the political progressive haven't always played well together, but, in the endearing musical time-piece Honeydripper, the indie icon lets his narrative gifts take the lead and the social issues follow like a tight bass line. The result is one of Sayles' best films. The music, a mix of blues, seminal rock and newcomer Gary Clark Jr.'s performance, will be an obvious draw, as will the performances by some leading African-American actors.
In'50s Alabama, the beleaguered Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover) is deeply in debt and about to lose his roadhouse, the Honeydripper, when he gets a brainstorm: He'll book regional celebrity Guitar Sam to play the club, have the best Saturday night of his life and use the procee...
Honeydripper
Moment Robert Altman's no longer with us, John Sayles is the incontestable king of the coordinates drama. In actuality, the New York scribbler-big cheese's always been degree more rich with the manufacture than the big-lauded Altman. For the male behind The Player and Gosford Reservation, it was the form that seemed the source of ecstasy - "Blow at the of stars my entitle attracts. Look at how I incline their egos to my drive. And what about all the overlapping dialogue? fine, huh?" By oppose, Sayles's key pursuit is in story and as such, his pictures face in a way that, say, A Prairie Impress upon Confrere doesn't. That said, Honeydripper - Sayles's sixteenth hype notice - has an air of Altman's country celebration about it. While in that case the - limited...
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