Honeydripper
Danny Glover stars as Pine Top Purvis, owner of an Alabama juke joint whose glory days are gone and debts are piling up. To save his club, Purvis hires R&B sensation Guitar Sam. But when Sam doesn't show, desperate times call for desperate measures. Now, the only cure for Pine Top's blues is to bust a local guitar-playing vagabond out of jail and have him masquerade as Guitar Sam long enough to fill the club and collect the cash.
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This movie can be summed up in one word: BORING. Danny Glover plays a barowner who is going through rough times and trying to keep his bar afloat. But forget about caring if he succeeds or not because there is no understanding of the characters or their motivations. They were not developed at all. They were just wooden people walking through actions that the audience doesn't understand. There is nothing commendable here. The cinematography is bad. In one scene a man was standing on a street and the building in the background was out of focus. There is no scenery. I rated this 2 stars simply because it wasn't even good enough to be hated. It was just there and a waste of time.(7/12/08)- VIP Club
This is an easygoing, slow paced drama with some cool music. Danny Glover plays a night club owner who is stubborn and old fashioned and about to lose his business. Charles S. Dutton is his more likable sidekick. Keb' Mo' plays a blind street musician. Gary Clark Jr. plays a drifter with an electric guitar who gets arrested by the local sheriff (played by Stacy Keach) and sold to a cotton farmer for slave labor. If this sounds interesting you may like this film. It has good acting, but I'm still not really sure why I liked it as much as I did. There is no action to speak of, there is not a lot of music, and the drama is not intense. In spite of all that I really enjoyed this movie. I just can't put my finger on the reason why. That's why I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Some viewers may find it boring, but if you are a fan of the actors in it, and you don't mind a slow mellow drama, then you might like it as I did.
- couchdog53