Sweet and Lowdown Movie Review 1999

Slight jazzy comedy, set in the '30s, traces the up-and-down career of fictional musician Emmet Ray (Penn), who's haunted by the fact that he's the second-best jazz guitarist in the world (Django Reinhardt is the first). However talented Emmet is musically, he's scum as a human being, abandoning Hattie (Morton), the mute laundress who turns out to be the love of his life in favor of wealthy writer Blanche (Thurman). Fine cast, good look, great music.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 95 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Biopics: Musicians, Great Depression, Jazz & Blues, Physical Problems, Writers, Flashback

Screenplay

Woody Allen

Cast

Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, Brian Markinson, Anthony LaPaglia, Gretchen Mol, Vincent Guastaferro, John Waters, James Urbaniak, Constance Shulman, Kellie Overbey, Michael Sprague, Woody Allen

Cinematography

Zhao Fei

Director

Woody Allen

Music

Dick Hyman

Producer

Jean Doumanian, J.E. Beaucaire, Sweetland Films AB, Sony Pictures Classics