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Summary
A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+17)
Critics 93Audiences 76GoodWatch 81
Tomatometer100%
Metascore85
Audience score90%
IMDb7.3
User score6.6
Running time
2 h 15 min
Longer than most music movies, +29 min on the typical 106
typical 106135Half of all music movies run 94–120 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 2 more
Released
2009
August 21, 2009
17 years ago
Genre
MusicLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Spike Lee Director
Writing · 1
- Stew Writer, Songs
Production · 2
- Steve Klein Producer
- Butch Robinson Line Producer
Camera · 1
- Matthew Libatique Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Barry Alexander Brown Editor, Production Design
Sound · 1
- Heidi Rodewald Songs
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