Sweet and Lowdown

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Cast

Sean Penn

as Emmet Ray

Samantha Morton

as Hattie

Anthony LaPaglia

as Al Torrio

Uma Thurman

as Blanche Williams

James Urbaniak

as Harry

John Waters

as Mr. Haynes

Gretchen Mol

as Ellie

Denis O'Hare

as Jake

Molly Price

as Ann

Brian Markinson

as Bill Shields

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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 pu...

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