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Honeydripper

Emerging Pictures | Release Date: December 28, 2007

Summary: It's 1950, and it's a make-or-break weekend for Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover), the proprietor of the Honeydripper Lounge. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to bring back the crowds that used to come to his place. He decides to lay off his longtime blues singer Bertha Mae and announces that he has hired a famous guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one-night-only gig in order to save the club. Into town drifts Sonny Blake, a young man with nothing to his name but big dreams and the guitar case in his hand. Rejected by Tyrone when he applies to play at the Honeydripper, he is intercepted by the corrupt local sheriff, arrested for vagrancy, and rented out as an unpaid cotton picker to the highest bidder. But when Tyrone's ace-in-the-hole fails to materialize at the train station, his desperation leads him back to Sonny and the strange, wire-dangling object in his guitar case. The Honeydripper Lounge is all set to play its part in rock and roll history. (Emerging Pictures)

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Runtime:	124 min
Rating:	Rated PG-13 for brief violence and some suggestive material.
Production:	Anarchist's Convention Films
Genres:	Drama, Music
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Home Release Date:	Jun 24, 2008

Director	Credit
John Sayles	Director

Writer	Credit
John Sayles	Written By

Cast	Credit
Absalom Adams	Lonnie
Arthur Lee Williams	Metalmouth Sims
Charles S. Dutton	Maceo
Danny Glover	Tyrone Purvis
Daryl Edwards	Shack Thomas
Davenia McFadden	Nadine
Gary Clark, Jr.	Sonny
Lisa Gay Hamilton	Delilah
Mable John	Bertha Mae
Nagee Clay	Scratch
Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Stokely
Sean Patrick Thomas	Dex
Stacy Keach	Sheriff
Vondie Curtis-Hall	Slick
Yaya DaCosta	China Doll

Producer	Credit
Ira Deutchman	Associate Producer
Maggie Renzi	Producer
Mark Wynns	Associate Producer
Susan Kirr	Associate Producer