John Sayles, with his modicum of cinematic acumen, fantasizes a turning point in popular culture, at the Honeydripper Lounge, a roadhouse-of-blues in rural Alabama, 1950, unable to compete with the new jukebox in the joint next door, till the arrival of a train-hopping vagabond toting a homemade electric guitar. The actual turning point — the birth of rock-and-roll — comes none too soon in this heavy, gluey, sugary slice of Americana. With Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta, Gary Clark, Jr., and Stacy Keach. (2008) — Duncan Shepherd
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