Mo Better Blues

Mo Better Blues

Mo Better Blues
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Actor: Giancarlo Esposito, Linda Hawkins (II), Raye Dowell, Robin Harris, Rubén Blades
Primary Contributor: Denzel Washington
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 120 minutes
Release Date: 1992-03-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios

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Movie Review: Spike Lee favorite
Summary: 5 Stars

If you enjoy Spike Lee movies and his jazzy background musical scores, then you'll enjoy Mo Better Blues. It allows you to enjoy the music as part of the movie and not only as a background soundtrack. The characters do a good job of portraying musicians and their eccentric lifestyles.

Summary of Mo Better Blues

With Mo' Better Blues, the story of a young trumpeter's rise to jazz-world stardom, Spike Lee set out to counter Clint Eastwood's cliché-ridden biopic of Charlie Parker in Bird. But the final product, a slick, glossy drama (with hip-hop jazz provided by Gangstarr no less), is just as superficial as the numerous Alger-esque stories of music stardom to which movie audiences are accustomed.

Denzel Washington gives a typically charismatic performance as the trumpeter in question, as does Wesley Snipes as his sax-playing rival. And as with most Spike Lee films, there are numerous solid performers in small roles such as Bill Nunn, Latin-music star Rubén Blades, and comedian Robin Harris. One character, however, attracted unwanted attention: John Turturro's role as an unscrupulous music-industry exec. Critics called the Turturro character, who is at once money hungry, swarthy, and perpetually shrouded in darkness, a classic anti-Semitic caricature. But the charge seems almost irrelevant in Spike Lee's cartoonish, overstylized world of impossibly hunky jazzmen, curvaceous hangers-on, and incessant bebop. --Ethan Brown

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