Romulus is mentally ill, a troglodyte in a New York City park. He's also a gifted composer and the father of a city cop. He sets out to track down the killer of a homeless boy, and bring him to justice.
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore, Ann Magnuson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182000/
Watched online, ok print.
2 songs in the Soundtracks.
SLJ is shown playing piano a few times, supposedly some were his compositions.
Music is a vehicle to get SLJ things, including clothing and being invited to the home of a suspected killer.
But the film is consumed with finding the killer, augmented by ravings and hallucinations of the "detective", our mentally ill cave dweller. It's very weird trying to distinguish what is useful information that SLJ is collecting, and what is just lunacy. By the time we got the solution, I didn't know who the murderer was or why he did it. I think I had given up the chase.
Rated 5.9 (5,969)
Universal & more, dir. Lemmons; 6
