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Honeydripper

  • 20072007
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 4m
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Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, and LisaGay Hamilton in Honeydripper (2007)
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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. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicke... Read all1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Ar... Read all1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the wa... Read all
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    • John Sayles
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  • Stars
    • Danny Glover
    • LisaGay Hamilton
    • Yaya DaCosta
    • John Sayles
    • John Sayles
  • Stars
    • Danny Glover
    • LisaGay Hamilton
    • Yaya DaCosta
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    • 31User reviews
    • 69Critic reviews
    • 68Metascore
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    Danny Glover
    Danny Glover
    • Tyrone Purvis
    LisaGay Hamilton
    LisaGay Hamilton
    • Delilah
    Yaya DaCosta
    Yaya DaCosta
    • China Doll
    Charles S. Dutton
    Charles S. Dutton
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    Gary Clark Jr.
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    Daryl Edwards
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    Sean Patrick Thomas
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    • Trivia
      For the scenes in which Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover) is playing the piano, the close-ups of his hands were performed by Henderson Huggins, a Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based pianist and piano tuner. Huggins, who has been blind since childhood due to glaucoma, got the job when the movie's director and producer team of John Sayles and Maggie Renzi received a tape of Huggins from the Alabama Blues Project, a Tuscaloosa organization dedicated to musical education and the preservation of the history of Alabama Blues.
    • Goofs
      Though set in 1950 the one dollar bills paid to get into the show by patrons are not silver certificates but rather current currency.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Bucket List/The Orphanage/The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep/There Will Be Blood/Honeydripper/Persepolis (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Honeydripper
      Written by Billy Novick & Mason Daring
      Published by Daring Music
      Administered by Universal Music Inc. (ASCAP)
      Performed by The Aces of Spade

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    Honeydripper
    Saw the movie, Honeydripper, with Danny Glover at the Palm Springs Film Festival today and it was wonderful Music was delightful and great characters, great photography, and I predict a big hit in 2008. It has been an audience favorite and probably be in the Best of Fest next Monday. Glover is outstanding; may be a little long, but every person in the film is well characterized. As a movie reviewer, I have given it FIVE STARS. I would like to know when it goes into general release so I can tell people all over the country. The blues music, rock n roll blends together. I recommend it highly. If this film came out in 2007 it would easily be in my top ten films of the year.
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    • Release date
      • May 9, 2008 (United Kingdom)
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      • Greenville, Alabama, USA
    • Production companies
      • Anarchist's Convention Films
      • Honeydripper Films
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    • 2 hours 4 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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