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Spike Lee's document of the Tony Award-winning musical Passing Strange is every bit as compelling onscreen as it was on stage. Read Critics Reviews
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Spike Lee's Passing Strange: The Movie is basically canned musical theater, but this is one Tony-winning Broadway show that's well worth preserving and seeing.
Aug 21, 2009 · In 1970s Los Angeles, a talented but rebellious middle-class African-American discovers punk rock. Through the intervention of a sincere choir director, the young man travels to Europe, where his talents blossom, but at the expense of those who care for him.
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- De'adre Aziza
Aug 19, 2009 · “Passing Strange” is one of the best musicals I’ve seen. It tells the story of a young black man from Los Angeles, rebelling against a loving, church-going family and breaking out on his own in the late 1960s to follow the call of art, or “art,” to Amsterdam and Berlin.
Aug 20, 2009 · “Passing Strange: The Movie” immerses the viewer at once in the story and the process of performance, emphasizing the play’s fidelity to emotional facts.
- Spike Lee
Aug 20, 2009 · In rethinking the Tony-winning 2008 rock musical Passing Strange for the screen, director Spike Lee made sure to do the right thing: not fuck up what worked like gangbusters onstage.
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Passing Strange: Directed by Spike Lee, Annie Dorsen. With Stew, De'Adre Aziza, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo. Director Spike Lee's passionate adaptation of the thrilling Broadway musical about a young bohemian who experiences sex, drugs and rock and roll on his journey to selfhood.
