Charles S. Dutton, Danny Glover, Gary Clark Jr
It's 1950, and it's a make or break weekend for Tyrone Purvis, the proprietor of the Honeydripper Lounge. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to bring back the crowds that used to come to his place. He ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 24, 2008
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June 25, 2008Honeydripper is a film that has great performances from Danny Glover and Charles Dutton as well as excellent music but the problem is that director John Sayles has made a movie without any really purpose or sense of pacing.
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July 27, 2008John Sayles is an odd filmmaker in that his work seems oddly isolated from everything else Hollywood puts out. He?s almost a textbook example of what an auteur is, in that one can guess he directed a film simply by watching a single scene, but pinpointing why his work is recogniz...( read more)
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June 9, 2008Decent drama about the birth of rock n' roll in 1950's Alabama.Tyrone Pervis' bar,The Honeydripper,is on the verge of being brought out unless he can come up with enough money and keep the place busy like it used to be.When Tyrone books a popular local guitarist to play and he fa...( read more)
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January 23, 2008John Sayles doing what he does best. Just a simple story about simple people. What you see is what you get, there are no surprises in this one.
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February 6, 2009Honeydripper was adapted for the screen by John Sayles from one of his own short stories. It's about a small lounge in Alabama just after the war (and just before the civil rights movement) owned by a man about to lose his business and desperate to hang onto it. It's about chan...( read more)
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September 27, 2008(2007 Director: John Sayles) This is a down home movie of hope...the stuff that most of us live on....real nice. Set in the deep deep Alabama South in a harsh past. Good performances by Danny Glover & an old time Sheriff Stacy Keach! [an instant view on Netflix] Blues musicia...( read more)
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August 6, 2008No siempre las películas de temática musical involucran a la típica biopic sobre el ascenso, triunfo y, casi siempre, descenso de grandes estrellas. También puede quedar involucrado un viejo club de blues, en medio de una sureña y algodonera región del sur estadounidense, a punto...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
March 7, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
February 29, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Even more than the music in this musically rich picture, the great pleasure of Honeydripper is in watching Danny Glover as Tyrone Purvis, the club owner. full review
February 15, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
A musical period piece that manages to be lighthearted and socially conscious. full review
January 18, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
[Sayles is] more concerned with spinning a ground-level human comedy than searching for pie in the sky. His movie is rich with characters and flowing with music. full review
January 9, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
It's time to acknowledge John Sayles' dependable good intentions. His latest film, Honeydripper, may have slipped through the cracks of December's big-ticket releases, but it's easily Sayles' best fil... full review
January 2, 2008
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Written and directed by the indefatigable indie idol John Sayles, the movie is well-acted, but it's as talky as if it were written for the stage, with fatally slow pacing. full review
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September 27, 2008(2007 Director: John Sayles) This is a down home movie of hope...the stuff that most of us live on....real nice. Set in the deep deep Alabama South in a harsh past. Good performances by Danny Glover & an old time Sheriff Stacy Keach! [an instant view on Netflix] Blues musician Keb' Mo works his magic on the saxophone to help save the day..
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