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Sweet and Lowdown
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Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 drama, comedy, musical and pseudo-documentary film written and directed by Woody Allen. Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Anthony LaPaglia and Uma Thurman star, with Jean Doumanian producing, Zhao Fei as director of photography, Alisa Lepselter editing, and a score by Dick Hyman. Filming took place in New York City and New Jersey.
Made in the United States on a budget of 29,750,000, the film earned 4,525,794 and was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics and Netflix. It received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actor.
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It sits within the topics 1999 American films, 1999 comedy-drama films and 1999 English-language films.
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6.8In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Cast
- Sean Penn as Emmet Ray
- Samantha Morton as Hattie
- Anthony LaPaglia as Al Torrio
- Uma Thurman as Blanche Williams
- James Urbaniak as Harry
- John Waters as Mr. Haynes
Themes
- new york city
- jazz
- guitar
- night life
- egocentrism
- jazz singer or musician
- pretty woman
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Woody Allen
- Written by
- Woody Allen
- Produced by
- Jean Doumanian
- Starring
- Anthony LaPaglia Brian Markinson Gretchen Mol Samantha Morton Sean Penn Uma Thurman James Urbaniak John Waters
- Cinematography
- Zhao Fei
- Edited by
- Alisa Lepselter
- Production company
- Sweetland Films
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Release date
- September 3, 1999 ( 1999-09-03 )
- Running time
- 95 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Box office
- $4,197,015
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- pseudo-documentary
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Woody Allen
- Screenwriter
- Woody Allen
- Composer
- Dick Hyman
- Producer
- Jean Doumanian
- Cinematographer
- Zhao Fei
- Filming location
- New Jersey
- Duration
- 95
- FilmAffinity ID
- 684777
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2000-03-30
- film editor
- Alisa Lepselter
- title
- Sweet and Lowdown
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 70/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 American comedy-drama mockumentary written and directed by Woody Allen. Loosely based on Federico Fellini's film La Strada, the film tells the story of jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (played by Sean Penn) who falls in love with mute laundress Hattie (Samantha Morton). Like several of Allen's other films (e.g., Zelig), the film is occasionally interrupted by interviews with critics and biographers like Allen, Nat Hentoff, Daniel Okrent, and Douglas McGrath, who comment on the film's plot as if the characters were real-life people.
The film received generally positive reviews upon release, with Penn and Morton receiving Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.
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