Mo’ Better Blues

Theatrical - Wide 1990-08-03

Cast Denzel Washington Spike Lee Wesley Snipes Giancarlo Esposito Robin Harris
Directed by Spike Lee

Box Office Gross: $16,153,593

Running Time: 129 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures

Genres: Drama Music

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Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile... See more than he ever imagined.

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