13 May 1994
Crooklyn
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
'Round Midnight
The music and the magic come together...
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
Top Billed Cast
Dexter Gordon Dale Turner
François Cluzet Francis Borler
Gabrielle Haker Bérangère
Christine Pascal Sylvie
Pierre Trabaud le père de Francis
Frédérique Meininger la mère de Francis
Liliane Rovère Madame Queen
Ged Marlon Beau
Benoît Régent Le psychiatre
Philippe Noiret Redon
Eddy Mitchell L'ivrogne au bar du Blue Note
Sandra Reaves-Phillips Buttercup
Lonette McKee Darcey Leigh
Bobby Hutcherson Ace
Hart Leroy Bibbs Herschell
Victoria Gabrielle Platt Chan Turner
Sophie Marceau Une fille dans la rue
Marc-Edouard Nabe Extra
Noël Simsolo
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