Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues

★ 6.5IMDb Score
Released:1990-08-03
Duration:129 min
Director:Spike Lee
Actors:Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Robin Harris
Production:40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures

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.

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