Mo' Better Blues
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| Directed by | Spike Lee |
| Produced by | Spike Lee Monty Ross |
| Written by | Spike Lee |
| Starring | Denzel Washington Wesley Snipes Spike Lee |
| Music by | Bill Lee |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 3, 1990 |
| Running time | 129 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10,000,000 |
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Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also directed. It follows a period in the life of a fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (played by Denzel Washington) as a series of bad decisions result in him both jeopardising his relationships and playing career. The film focuses on themes of friendship, loyalty, honesty, cause-and-effect and ultimately salvation. It features the music of the Branford Marsalis quartet plus Terence Blanchard on trumpet.
[edit] Cast
- Denzel Washington — Bleek Gilliam
- Spike Lee — Giant
- Wesley Snipes — Shadow Henderson
- Giancarlo Esposito — Left Hand Lacey
- Robin Harris — Butterbean Jones
- Joie Lee — Indigo Downes
- Bill Nunn — Bottom Hammer
- John Turturro — Moe Flatbush
- Dick Anthony Williams — Big Stop Williams
- Cynda Williams — Clarke Bentancourt
- Nicholas Turturro — Josh Flatbush
- Jeff 'Tain' Watts — Rhythm Jones
- Samuel L. Jackson — Madlock
- Leonard L. Thomas — Rod
- Charlie Murphy — Eggy
[edit] Trivia
- It was referenced to in the Simpson's episode A Star is Burns. In a film festival, instead of Mo' Better Blues, it was Moe Better Booze.
- Trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who played on the soundtrack, later suffered from embouchure problems similar to those of the main character of the film.
- The scene between Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes where they are discussing the current state of African American culture is excerpeted, and plays a major part of the first track in the hiphop group The Roots' album Things Fall Apart.
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