Honeydripper

Danny Glover plays Tyrone, the owner of a live music club in the Deep South in 1950. He's got big problems though - the old fashioned soul/blues singer is no longer popular, while the neighbouring juke box club is packing them in. The debts are mounting and the local Sherriff (brilliantly played by Stacey Keech) is determined to put him down one way or another. His only way out seems to be a live appearance by electric guitarist Guitar Sam. Enter mysterious stranger, Gary Clark Jnr, with his own home made electric guitar. Danny's wife has got religion and is faced with the choice of saving her soul or rejecting her husband and his lifestyle. A gentle, slightly meandering tale, but well acted, and avoiding sentimentality. An excellent study of the side of America rarely portrayed on film - almost every actor in this film is black, and although poor they get by with dignity and determination. Rating: 8/10