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Aug 3, 1990 · Overview. Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined. Spike Lee. Director, Writer.
Brooklyn, New York 1969. A group of four boys walk up to Bleek Gilliam (Zakee L. Howze)'s brownstone rowhouse and ask him to come out and play baseball with them. Bleek's mother insists that he continue his trumpet lesson, to his chagrin. His father becomes concerned that Bleek will grow up to be a sissy, and a family argument ensues.
Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington gives a riveting performance in Spike Lee's breathtaking film on music and love. Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) is obsessed by his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends, Indigo (Joie Lee) and Clarke (Cynda Williams). But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend (Spike Lee), Bleek finds ...
Mo' Better Blues. A talented and self-centered jazz trumpeter slowly discovers the emptiness of his life in director Spike Lee's winning, sexually frank romantic drama. 1,283 IMDb 6.7 2 h 9 min 1990. X-Ray R. Romance · Drama · Understated · Cerebral. Available to rent or buy.
Sep 24, 2020 · ‘Mo’ Better Blues’ at 30: Spike Lee’s Fourth Joint, as Told by Female Leads Cynda Williams and Joie Lee. Lee's colorful, jazz-fueled dramedy gave Denzel Washington his first romantic lead ...
Mo' Better Blues is an interesting look at discipline and obsession, love and sex, friendship and rivalry, and the nature of ambition that becomes, in its final moments, a beautiful meditation on fatherhood. Not ashamed to say that those last moments brought me to genuine, emotional tears.
