Highest 2 Lowest

Theatrical - Limited 2025-08-22

Cast Denzel Washington Jeffrey Wright Dean Winters Wendell Pierce Frederick Weller
Directed by Spike Lee

Box Office Gross: $1,500,000

Running Time: 133 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: A24, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Escape Artists, Mandalay Pictures, A/Vantage Pictures, Kurosawa Production

Genres: Crime Drama Thriller

JoBlo's Rating

8/10

Synopsis

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

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