Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
- melancholy
- admiring
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Denzel Washington
Bleek Gilliam
Spike Lee
Giant
Wesley Snipes
Shadow Henderson (Sax)
Giancarlo Esposito
Left Hand Lacey (Piano)
- Robin Harris — Butterbean Jones
- Joie Lee — Indigo
- Bill Nunn — Bottom Hammer
- John Turturro — Moe Flatbush
- Dick Anthony Williams — Big Stop Williams
- Cynda Williams — Clarke Bentancourt
- Nicholas Turturro — Josh Flatbush
- Samuel L. Jackson — Madlock
- Leonard L. Thomas — Rod
- Charlie Murphy — Eggy
- Rubén Blades — Petey
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 267 ratings
- Studio
- 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures
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.
