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Release Date: 1990

Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Charlie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Flavor Flav, Cynda Williams, Bill Nunn, Robin Harris, Dick Anthony Williams, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro ...MORE

Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Charlie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Flavor Flav, Cynda Williams, Bill Nunn, Robin Harris, Dick Anthony Williams, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro, Nicholas Turturro, Joie Lee ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Indie, Musical, Comedy

Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also directed. It follows a period in the life of a fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (played by Washington) as a series of bad decisions result in his jeopardizing both his relationships and his playing career. The film focuses on themes of friendship, loyalty, honesty, cause-and-effect and ultimately salvation. It features the music of the Branford Marsalis quartet and Terence Blanchard on trumpet. The film was released five months after the death of Robin Harris and is dedicated to... MORE

Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also directed. It follows a period in the life of a fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (played by Washington) as a series of bad decisions result in his jeopardizing both his relationships and his playing career. The film focuses on themes of friendship, loyalty, honesty, cause-and-effect and ultimately salvation. It features the music of the Branford Marsalis quartet and Terence Blanchard on trumpet. The film was released five months after the death of Robin Harris and is dedicated to his memory. The film begins with a scene set in Brooklyn, New York in 1969. A group of four boys walk up to Bleek Gilliam’s brownstone 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. In the end, Bleek continues playing his trumpet, and his friends go away. The next scene brings us to the present (over twenty years later), with an adult Bleek (Denzel Washington) performing on the trumpet at a busy nightclub with his jazz LESS