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Sweet and Lowdown. Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 American comedy-drama mockumentary written and directed by Woody Allen. Loosely based on Federico Fellini 's film La Strada, [1] the film tells the story of jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (played by Sean Penn) who falls in love with mute laundress Hattie ( Samantha Morton ).
- $4,197,015
- September 3, 1999
- Sweetland Films
- Jean Doumanian
Mar 10, 2000 · Sweet and Lowdown: Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Ben Duncan, Daniel Okrent, Dan Moran. In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Woody Allen
- 2000-03-10
He also happens to be a jazz guitarist with undeniable talent, and despite his many faults, he ends up winning the heart of Hattie (Samantha Morton), a kind young mute woman. Hattie's seemingly ...
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- Woody Allen
- PG-13
- Sean Penn
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Dec 22, 1999 · Emmet Ray is a fictional character, but so convincing in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown'' that he seems like a real chapter of jazz history we somehow overlooked. Sean Penn, whose performances are master classes in the art of character development, makes him into an exasperating misfit whose sins are all forgiven once he begins to play.
Jun 20, 2000 · "Sweet and Lowdown" tells the story of Emmet Ray, an outsized and utterly self-absorbed personality who is also a gifted swing era jazz guitarist. Ray is not an appealing subject, but Sean Penn really digs into the character and somehow makes him sympathetic by revealing fragility and inner turmoil.
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- Sony
- $38.93
- DVD
Aug 7, 2020 · Woody Allen’s film is the fanciful biography of a legendary jazz guitarist, Emmet Ray, who clashed with lovers, gangsters, musicians, and success itself in t...
Sep 9, 2015 · Like many of Allen's best films, this is a deceptively modest affair, funny and charming but seemingly slight and inconsequential - until the killer coda. The sense of period and place is assured ...
