Mo' Better Blues
19902h 9mDrama · Music
Released
August 3, 1990
TMDB Score
65% match · 268 votes
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About the Movie
Synopsis
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 than he ever imagined.
DirectorSpike Lee
- Released
- August 3, 1990
- Runtime
- 2h 9m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $16.2M
- Studios
- 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures
Top Billed Cast
Denzel Washington
Bleek Gilliam
Spike Lee
Giant
Wesley Snipes
Shadow Henderson (Sax)
Giancarlo Esposito
Left Hand Lacey (Piano)
Robin Harris
Butterbean Jones
Joie Lee
Indigo
Bill Nunn
Bottom Hammer
John Turturro
Moe Flatbush
Dick Anthony Williams
Big Stop Williams
Cynda Williams
Clarke Bentancourt
Nicholas Turturro
Josh Flatbush
Samuel L. Jackson
Madlock
Leonard L. Thomas
Rod
Charlie Murphy
Eggy
Rubén Blades
Petey
Abbey Lincoln
Lillian Gilliam
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