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Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
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Ratings: 7.2/10 from 17,448 users
Metascore:
70/100
Reviews: 136 user | 105 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com In the 1930s, fictional jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute. Director:Woody AllenWriter:Woody Allen |
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A.J. Pickman
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Constance Shulman | ... |
Hazel - Hooker #1
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Iris - Hooker #2
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Don
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Omer
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Ron C. Jones | ... |
Alvin
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Steve Bargonetti | ... |
Musician Friend
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Benjamin Franklin Brown | ... |
Musician Friend
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Harry
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A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. We follow Ray's life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizzare hobbies of shooting rats and watching passing trains, his dreams of fame and fortune, his strange obsession with the better-known guitarist Django Reinhardt, and of course, playing his beautiful music. Written by Martin Lewison <mlewison@utk.edu>
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Dulce y melancólico See more »Box Office
Budget:
$29,750,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$94,686 (USA) (5 December 1999) (3 Screens)Gross:
$4,196,621 (USA) (21 May 2000)Company Credits
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Emmet Ray: Yeah, that I'm underpaid. I think about that sometimes.
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(1920)
Written by Buddy G. DeSylva (as Buddy DeSylva), Al Jolson and Vincent Rose
Performed by Django Reinhardt
Courtesy of Blue Note Records, a Division of Capitol Records, Inc.
Under license from EMI Capitol Music Special Markets See more »
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The scene towards the end of the film in which Emmet Ray is drunk in a New York bar was filmed in "Chumleys," a bar on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village. See more »Goofs
Anachronisms: Railroad freight cars have reporting marks for railroads that did not exist in '30's See more »Quotes
Blanche: What do you think of when you play? What goes through your mind?Emmet Ray: Yeah, that I'm underpaid. I think about that sometimes.
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Soundtracks
"Avalon"(1920)
Written by Buddy G. DeSylva (as Buddy DeSylva), Al Jolson and Vincent Rose
Performed by Django Reinhardt
Courtesy of Blue Note Records, a Division of Capitol Records, Inc.
Under license from EMI Capitol Music Special Markets See more »
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