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Mo' Better Blues
1990
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. Read more
| Starring | Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes |
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| Director | Spike Lee |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
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Mo' Better Blues
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.
| Starring | Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes |
|---|---|
| Director | Spike Lee |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 9 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
| Released | DVD: 23 Feb 2000 Production year: 1990 |
| Format | DVD |
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It's clear from the opening that the way Lee sees jazz is as Art, sanitised and consequently a mite gutless. Indeed, as... read more on Time Out
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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Mo Monotomy Mo Mundane
Was really looking forward to watching this film. The description of the movie leads you to believe it is a hard luck to riches film with a blues music theme. Despite some wonderful actors like Samuel L Jackson, Wesley Snipes and Denzil Washington, the script is mundane and doesn't go anywhere. To add insult to injury, the music also played is jazz but the type of jazz which is completely self indulgent for the player, and unless you're into this sort of thing, it would take you years to work out what it is they were supposed to be playing.
In my humble opinion, don't waste your time with this movie. Originally filmed in 1990's, it is a film that doesn't go anywhere. -
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very good
goob biographical film. lots of humour, action, romance and sexy scenes with musical integration
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Denzel Washington
- 11 Dec 2006
This season, the new black is black. Going into the Academy Awards period it's clearer than ever there has been a sea-change in the status of African-Americans in Hollywood movies. The Academy's history is self-evidently shameful. When Denzel Washington won the Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Glory in 1989, he became only the third black actor to take home an Oscar. The others were Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939) and Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field (1963). In... Read more
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Mo' Better Blues
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....
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