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Mo' better blues

Title
Mo' better blues / Universal Pictures presents a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production, a Spike Lee joint ; produced, directed and written by Spike Lee.
Publication
Universal City, CA : MCA Universal Home Video, [1991]

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Additional Authors
  • Lee, Spike
  • Washington, Denzel, 1954-
  • Snipes, Wesley
  • Esposito, Giancarlo
  • Harris, Robin, 1953-1990
  • Lee, Joie Susannah, 1962-
  • Nunn, Bill, 1952-2016
  • Turturro, John, 1957-
  • Williams, Dick Anthony
  • Williams, Cynda
  • Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks.
  • Universal Pictures (Firm)
  • MCA Universal Home Video (Firm)
Description
1 videocassette (129 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
Summary
Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive 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.
Uniform Title
Mo' better blues (Motion picture)
Subject
  • Trumpet players > United States > Drama
  • Friendship > Drama
  • Jazz > Drama
  • Friendship
  • Jazz
  • Trumpet players
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Feature films – United States.
  • Drama
  • Feature films
  • Fiction films
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired
  • Fiction films.
  • Feature films.
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
  • Feature.
  • Films de fiction.
  • Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Note
  • VHS format.
  • Videocassette release of the 1990 motion picture.
  • Rated R.
  • Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
  • "Universal Pictures presents a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production"--Container.
  • "81013."
Credits (note)
  • Assistant director, Randy Fletcher ; co-producer, Monty Ross ; production design, Wynn Thomas ; music, Bill Lee ; music performed by the Branford Marsalis Quartet with Terence Blanchard ; photography, Ernest Dickerson ; editor, Sam Pollard.
Performer (note)
  • Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Robin Harris, Joie Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Dick Anthony Williams, Cynda Williams.
System Details (note)
  • VHS; hi-fi; Dolby surround stereo; digitally recorded.
ISBN
  • 1558801871
  • 9781558801875
OCLC
  • ocm23012184
  • 23012184
  • SCSB-1251411
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library