Honeydripper
Delightfully atmospheric '50s-set drama from indie king John Sayles.
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Beautifully-scripted, with great performances, atmospheric music and impressive period authenticity, Honeydripper is the wonderful latest drama from writer-director John Sayles.
Alabama, 1950, and the season of the cotton harvest: Tyrone 'Pine Top' Purvis (Danny Glover) runs the Honeydripper Lounge, a shack bar in the crossroads town of Harmony that has seen better days. He hires the popular electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, hoping for a big payday that will ensure the bar has a future. However, things don't go to plan, and Pine Top is forced into drastic action, making a desperate deal with redneck Sheriff Pugh (Stacey Keach).
With wonderful, warm performances, John Sayles' Honeydripper is a deceptively simple, delightful drama, which has the politics of race and class constantly bubbling away beneath its stylish surface.
- Directed by:
- John Sayles
- Cast:
- Charles S Dutton, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Vondie Curtis-Hall
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2007
- Running time:
- 123min
