2007
PG-13
Emerging Pictures
2 h 4 m

2007
PG-13
Emerging Pictures
2 h 4 m

Summary It's 1950, and it's a make-or-break weekend for Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover), the proprietor of the Honeydripper Lounge. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to bring back the crowds that used to come to his place. He decides to lay off his longtime blues singer Bertha Mae and announces that he has hired a famous guitar player, Guitar Sam, ...

Directed By: John Sayles

Written By: John Sayles

2007
PG-13
Emerging Pictures
2 h 4 m

2007
PG-13
Emerging Pictures
2 h 4 m

Honeydripper

Name: Honeydripper
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Released: 2007-12-28
Duration: 2 min 4 s
Rating: 68
Cast: Danny Glover, LisaGay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton, Vondie Curtis-Hall

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews

78% Positive
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Variety

The result is one of Sayles' best films. The music, a mix of blues, seminal rock and newcomer Gary Clark Jr.'s performance, will be an obvious draw, as will the performances by some leading African-American actors.

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Salon

Honeydripper offers a leisurely, atmospheric production with lots of time to appreciate his largely African-American cast, along with rocking musical interludes and just the faintest wash of spirituality.

By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW

Philadelphia Inquirer

In its first half, Honeydripper trickles. In its second, it really flows.

By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW

The New Yorker

At its best when the characters sit around, dither, and ruminate. Moviemaking seems to have become almost magically easy for this independent writer-director. He builds a detailed atmosphere, brings his good people and his bad together, and lets them jabber at one another; the virtuosity is rhetorical rather than visual.

By David Denby FULL REVIEW

The A.V. Club

There are precisely zero surprises in how things play out--the main thread is basically "Big Night" revisited--but the film gets better as it goes along, and it closes with a rousing musical flourish, as immensely charismatic newcomer Clark Jr. finally hits the stage. At last, Sayles' sleepy drama wakes with a start.

By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Honeydripper is agreeable, well-intentioned and very, very slow. Sadly, it illustrates the difference between an archetype and a stereotype. When the first falls flat, it turns into the other and becomes a cliché.

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Washington Post

Trudging nobly under a mantle of impeccably earnest intentions and a fussy, too-quaint-by-half production design, Honeydripper lags and drags to its utterly predictable end. There's not a spark of spontaneity or soul about it.

By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Anarchist's Convention Films, Honeydripper Films

Release Date Dec 28, 2007

Duration 2 h 4 m

Rating PG-13

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Tagline This better be some Saturday night!

Website http://honeydripper-movie.com/

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Awards

Image Awards (NAACP)

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

Black Reel Awards

• 2 Nominations

San Sebastián International Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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Danny Glover

Tyrone Purvis

LisaGay Hamilton

Delilah

Yaya DaCosta

China Doll

Charles S. Dutton

Maceo

Vondie Curtis-Hall

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Gary Clark Jr.

Sonny

Mable John

Bertha Mae

Stacy Keach

Sheriff Pugh

Nagee Clay

Scratch

Absalom Adams

Lonnie

Arthur Lee Williams

Metalmouth Sims

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Stokely

Davenia McFadden

Nadine

Daryl Edwards

Shack Thomas

Sean Patrick Thomas

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Eric L. Abrams

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Kel Mitchell

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Cool Breeze

Donnie L. Betts

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