Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
- new york city
- friendship
- new love
- homeless person
- drug abuse
- vernissage
- drug addiction
- overdose
- artist
- graffiti
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jeffrey Wright
Jean Michel Basquiat
Michael Wincott
Rene Ricard
Benicio del Toro
Benny Dalmau
Claire Forlani
Gina Cardinale
- David Bowie — Andy Warhol
- Dennis Hopper — Bruno Bischofberger
- Gary Oldman — Albert Milo
- Christopher Walken — The Interviewer
- Willem Dafoe — The Electrician
- Jean-Claude La Marre — Shenge
- Parker Posey — Mary Boone
- Elina Löwensohn — Annina Nosei
- Paul Bartel — Henry Geldzahler
- Courtney Love — Big Pink
- Tatum O'Neal — Cynthia Kruger
- Directed
- Julian Schnabel
- Written
- Julian Schnabel, John F. Bowe, Lech Majewski
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 320 ratings
- Studio
- Eleventh Street Production, Jon Kilik Productions, Miramax
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
