Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
Land: United States
Alternative Title: Mais E Melhores Blues, Cuanto más, ¡mejor!, Parallages s' ena blues, Blues, Czarny blues, Quanto Mais Melhor, Još bolji bluz, Iki kadin arasinda
Regisseur: Spike Lee
Writer: Spike Lee
Production Genre
Produzent: Producer: Spike Lee
Co-Producer: Monty Ross
Firmen: 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical Film, Romance
Budget: 10.000.000
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Schlüsselwörter
Schlüsselwörter: admiring, melancholy
Geschichte
Mo' Better Blues follows Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington), a talented but self-centered jazz trumpeter who struggles with professional and romantic decisions. He is torn between his two girlfriends, Indigo (Spike Lee's real-life wife Tonya Lewis Lee) and Clarke (Cynda Williams). Meanwhile, he faces challenges in his career as his manager and childhood friend, Giant (Giancarlo Esposito), lands himself in trouble with loan sharks due to gambling debts. When Bleek steps in to help Giant, he finds that his world is more fragile than he imagined.
Zusammenfassung
Mo' Better Blues is a Spike Lee film from 1990 that explores themes of jazz music, indecision, and the complexities of relationships. The movie centers around Bleek Gilliam, an admiring but flawed musician whose life is marked by melancholy due to his inability to make decisive choices in both his professional and romantic life.
