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Release Date: 2007

Cast: Stacy Keach, Mary Steenburgen, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Charles S. Dutton, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Sayles, Mable John, Davenia McFadden, Keb' Mo', Vondie Curtis-Hall, Yaya Da Costa, Kel Mitchell ...MORE

Cast: Stacy Keach, Mary Steenburgen, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Charles S. Dutton, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Sayles, Mable John, Davenia McFadden, Keb' Mo', Vondie Curtis-Hall, Yaya Da Costa, Kel Mitchell, Danny Glover, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Daryl Edwards, Gary Clark Jr. ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Musical Drama, Ensemble Film, Indie, Musical, Period Piece, Drama Film

Honeydripper is a 2007 American musical drama film written and directed by John Sayles. Filmed and set in Alabama, the film stars Danny Glover as the owner of a blues club that is failing until he hires a young electric guitarist (Gary Clark, Jr.). The film also stars musician Keb' Mo', actor/comedian Kel Mitchell and singer Mable John. Rhythm and blues singer Ruth Brown recorded some songs for the film and was cast to play a role, but died before filming started. Stephen Holden, the film critic for The New York Times, was disappointed in the film script and wrote, "While operating on a... MORE

Honeydripper is a 2007 American musical drama film written and directed by John Sayles. Filmed and set in Alabama, the film stars Danny Glover as the owner of a blues club that is failing until he hires a young electric guitarist (Gary Clark, Jr.). The film also stars musician Keb' Mo', actor/comedian Kel Mitchell and singer Mable John. Rhythm and blues singer Ruth Brown recorded some songs for the film and was cast to play a role, but died before filming started. Stephen Holden, the film critic for The New York Times, was disappointed in the film script and wrote, "While operating on a mythic level Honeydripper also wants to create the same kind of top-to-bottom social microcosm found in many of Mr. Sayles’s films. But this time his attempt to have his characters be simultaneously symbolic and real works at cross purposes. He is so uncomfortable writing dialogue in an old-time Southern argot that the conversations in Honeydripper rarely settle into the easy, colorfully idiomatic flow that has always been a hallmark of Southern speech. Hard as they try to break through the stiffness, the film’s fine actors only fitfully succeed in camouflaging the machinery behind their LESS