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Sweet and Lowdown
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.
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Frank Langella Leonard Schiller
Lauren Ambrose Heather Wolfe
Patti Perkins Dolores
Adrian Lester Casey Davis
Lili Taylor Ariel Schiller
Dennis Parlato Author
Jeff McCarthy Charles
Michael Cumpsty Victor
Jessica Hecht Sandra Bennett
Karl Bury Frederick
Sean T. Krishnan Cab Driver
Thomas Ryan Nick
Anitha Gandhi Chelsea
Joie Lee Second Author
John C. Havens Jeff the Doorman
Ali Reza Doctor
Jerry Walsh Bartender
Joel West Waiter
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