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Sweet and Lowdown

Sweetland Films

Jean Doumanian Productions

Magnolia Productions

United States of America

English

Sean Penn

Samantha Morton

Anthony LaPaglia

Uma Thurman

James Urbaniak

John Waters

Gretchen Mol

Denis O'Hare

Molly Price

Brian Markinson

Tony Darrow

Daniel Okrent

Brad Garrett

Kaili Vernoff

Woody Allen

Ben Duncan (DJ)

Nat Hentoff

Douglas McGrath

Dan Moran

Chris Bauer

Darryl Alan Reed

Constance Shulman

Kellie Overbey

Katie Hamill

Lola Pashalinski

Steve Bargonetti

Benjamin Franklin Brown

Marc Damon Johnson

Ron Cephas Jones

Vince Giordano

Emme Kemp

Clark Gayton

Marcus McLaurine

Carolyn Saxon

Drummond Erskine

Joe Ambrose

Joseph Rigano

Dennis Stein

Carole Bayeux

Paula Parrish

Cory Solar

Lexi Egz

Yvette Mercedes

Peter Leung

William Addy

Dick Monday

Mary Stout

Dick Mingalone

Mr. Spoons

Carol Woods

Josh Mowery

Fred Goehner

Eddy Davis

Vincent Guastaferro

Ralph Pope

Jerome Richardson

Earl P. McIntyre

James Williams

Frank Wess

Al Bryant

Ray Garvey

Sally Placksin

Simon Wettenhall

Orange Kellin

Brooks Giles III

Alfred Sauchelli, Jr.

Michael Peter Bolus

Mick O'Rourke

John P. 'Jack' McLaughlin

Chuck Lewkowicz

Rick Mowat

Ted Wilkins

Michael Sprague

Debora Fearon

Santo Loquasto

Zhao Fei

Letty Aronson

J.E. Beaucaire

Richard Brick

Jean Doumanian

Charles H. Joffe

Jack Rollins

Dick Hyman

Alisa Lepselter

Tom Warren

Jessica Lanier

Laura Bauer

Lee Dichter

Robert Hein

Glenfield Payne

Juliet Taylor

Laura Rosenthal

Sylvia Menno

George A. Lara

Frank Kern

Bruce Pross

Jay Peck

Marko Costanzo

Neil Riha

Les Lazarowitz

Ron Petagna Sr.

Peter Gelfman

George Patsos

Michael Proscia Jr.

Jack Coffen

Peter Bucossi

Norman Douglass

John Ottesen

Ron Ottesen

Michael Green

Gary Muller

David E. Baron

A. Lee Morris

John Clifford

Daniel K. Grosso

Regina Graves

Drew Dillard

Kay Chapin

Tom Yeager

Pietro Lorino, Jr.

Abby Bailey

Patricia Kerrigan DiCerto

Richard Patrick

Lisa Janowski

Margo Myers

Kimberly N. Fajen

Jennifer Silverman

Sarah Allentuch

Hyun-joo Kim

Beth Kuhn

Paul Robinson

David Stein

Jessica A. Milstein

Robin McAllister

Bob Brennan

Frank Didio

James Sorice

Cliff Schorr

Margot Therre

Mark Bachman

Frank Graziadei

Rosemary Zurlo

Eva Polywka

Milton Buras

Stephen G. Bishop

Robert Kushner

Bobby Frederick Tilley

Heather Priest

Barrett Hong

Suzanne Pettit

Sheri Bylander

Sara Corrigan

Katherine Belsey

Carl Turnquest

Bradford L. Hohle

Thomas Rosseter

Camille Geier

Melanie Ryder

Kate Eales

Meredith Garlick

Edward Iacobelli

Michael Anthony

Michael McBrien

Christie Mullen

Kim Noble

Steven Weisberg

David Brotsky

Jessica Glass

Kate Siamon

Brian A. York

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Presented in a documentary style, this drama looks at the life of the fictional jazz guitarist "Emmet Ray" (Sean Penn). Now, of course, he is American so is naturally the best in the whole wide world, well second best actually, and that is testified to by frequent obsequious pieces-to-camera from purported experts and then by his own performances as he plays standards from the likes of Django Reinhardt, the masterful Stéphane Grapelli and Duke Ellington. Director Woody Allen has a penchant for this style of music, and as faux-homages go this isn't at all bad. That's really thanks to a strong contribution from Sean Penn as the frankly pretty odious character who's selfishness was probably only eclipsed by his increasing obsession with the shy mute "Hattie" (a gorgeous effort from Samantha Morton) who comes to depend on him, but might he actually come to depend on her too - despite himself? It's a great looking film with plenty of attention to detail, and it does work well at illustrating just how important it is for people to have decent anchors in their lives. The dialogue is all a bit too relentless for me with very little time to come up for air as this rattles along but it's all genuinely and uncomfortably plausible at times, too. Pity about the constant hyperbole, though - how can anyone be the best guitarist? Hmmm?

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