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Mo' Better Blues
Running Time: 135 min.
MPAA Rating: R
Box Office: / Domestic gross: $16,154,000
Produced By: / 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks / Universal
Released: August 03, 1990 (USA)
Release By: Universal

Summary:
Spike Lee's 1990 directing effort is a jazz film, the story of a fictional trumpeter named Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington). He leads a quintet at the Beneath the Underground club with a flashy saxophonist named Shadow Henderson (Wesley Snipes). Tho... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew: Denzel Washington (Bleek Gilliam) Spike Lee (Giant) Wesley Snipes (Shadow Henderson) Joie Lee (Indigo Downes) All Cast & Crew >> Review: Spike Lee's film on the life of a jazz musician features some wonderful music, but in its slapdash construction and melodramatic hokiness, it does little to illuminate the nature of the profession it attempts to explore. Lee, whose father was a noted ... Continue >>

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