Honeydripper
- 2007
- US
- 122 min
- PG
- Directed by: John Sayles
- Written by: John Sayles
- Cast: Danny Glover, Keb' Mo', Mable John, Kel Mitchell
- Website: www.honeydripper-movie.com
It's 1950 in rural Alabama and morally circumspect pianist Tyrone Purvis (Glover) is trying to save the Honeydripper lounge from bankruptcy and his ass from prison. Although this benign and jolly tale is too long and features too many characters, Sayles' ability to spin a good yarn remains undiminished, irreproachable, enviable and all too rare.
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Honeydripper
8 May 2008
DRAMA (PG) 124min God may have given rock’n’roll to us but Alabama gave us the electric blues. The story of its genesis is one that writer and director John Sayles (Lone Star, Matewan, Silver City) sets out in his latest film treatise in search of the…
Honeydripper - John Sayles Interview
8 May 2008
‘Some of the plot of Honeydripper comes from this rock’n’roll legend called Guitar Slim who was a New Orleans guitar player in the early 1950s. He had a huge hit with a song called ‘The Things That I Used to Do’ which was arranged by Ray Charles when he…
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