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Mo' Better Blues

6.5 129 mins Drama   Music   1990
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks   Universal Pictures  
Director(s): Spike Lee

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.

Casts of Mo' Better Blues

Denzel Washington

as Bleek Gilliam

Spike Lee

as Giant

Wesley Snipes

as Shadow Henderson (Sax)

Giancarlo Esposito

as Left Hand Lacey (Piano)

John Turturro

as Moe Flatbush

Nicholas Turturro

as Josh Flatbush

Robin Harris

as Butterbean Jones

Joie Lee

as Indigo

Charlie Murphy

as Eggy

Cynda Williams

as Clarke Bentancourt

Flavor Flav

as Impatient Movie Patron

Bill Nunn

as Bottom Hammer

Dick Anthony Williams

as Big Stop Williams

Samuel L. Jackson

as Madlock

Tracy Camilla Johns

as Club Patron

Coati Mundi

as Roberto

Abbey Lincoln

as Lillian Gilliam

Rubén Blades

as Petey

Diahann Carroll

as Jazz Club Singer (uncredited)

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