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Sweet and Lowdown

starring: Chris Bauer, Tony Darrow, Ben Duncan, Brad Garrett, Marc Damon Johnson

: Sweet and Lowdown
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767847544
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767847547
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 20, 2000
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 11912
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1999



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Amazon.com:
Woody Allen makes beautiful music but only fitful comedy with his story of 'the second greatest guitar player in the world.' Sean Penn plays Emmett Ray, an irresponsible, womanizing swing guitar player in Depression-era America who is guided by an ego almost as large as his talent. 'I'm an artist, a truly great artist,' he proclaims time and time again, and when he plays, soaring into a blissed-out world of pure melodic beauty, he proves it. Samantha Morton almost steals the film as his mute girlfriend Hattie, a sweet Chaplinesque waif who loves him unconditionally, and Uma Thurman brings haughty moxie to her role as a slumming socialite and aspiring writer who's forever analyzing Emmett's peculiarities (like taking his dates to shoot rats at the city dump). The vignettelike tales are interspersed with comments by jazz aficionados and critics, but this is less a Zelig-like mockumentary than an extension of the self-absorbed portraits of Deconstructing Harry and Celebrity. The lazy pace drags at times and the script runs dry between comic centerpieces--the film screams for more of Allen's playful invention--but there's a bittersweet tenderness and an affecting vulnerability that is missing from his other recent work. Shot by Zhao Fei (The Emperor and the Assassin, Raise the Red Lantern), it's one of Allen's most gorgeous and colorful films in years, buoyed by toe-tapping music and Penn's gruffly charming performance. --Sean Axmaker



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Not So Far From the Truth
I've loved this movie and the music in it since first seeing it shortly after it was released. Recently ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Emmet Ray: Wanna go to the dump and shoot some rats?
Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown" (1999), a fictional biopic about "the world's second best jazz guitarist," ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Beginning of a Tsunami
It may be Woody Allen's second best film, next to Annie Hall and is at least partly responsible for a popular ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Masterful
Sweet and Lowdown is a masterful film, only let down slightly by sagging in one or two places. Like most of Woody Allen's ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - is that all i can give it-5 stars?
Samantha Morton is so good in this you'll cry.
you'll laugh too so how can you beat that?
Sean Penn gives a fantastic ... Read More

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