1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis.
Writer/Director: John Sayles
Stars: Danny Glover, LisaGay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Stacy Keach.
Watched on AmazonPrime.
20 songs in the Soundtracks, but it felt as though we got almost no music until the final 15 minutes. Oh, there was some bad singing (acknowledged as such by the characters), and a blind street performer. But even the "good" stuff was deeply mediocre.
Very slow, plodding, ponderous. And not worth the time.
Rated 6.7 (1,795)
indie, dir. Sayles; 5
