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Synopsis: 1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar legend go awry and Tyrone is forced to take drastic action in a final scheme to save the club.
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Director(s): John Sayles
Production: Emerging Pictures
  3 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
PG-13
Year:
2007
124 min
Website
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Looks like it.

You'll know that'll be a violation

of something or other.

We're just about to close up here.

Oh. Ooh, your wife been cooking?

Not tonight.

Went to a revival chat.

Ah, I stood by there myself.

Them n*ggers were singing up a storm.

I just came out here

to look in on Toussaint.

Had that shooting two nights ago.

Lots of fighting in there.

There is that.

Course, me and old Toussaint,

we got us an agreement.

Them field hands

start sucking down that whisky,

hopping them all up with music,

there's gonna be some razors drawn.

Course, he only call me

if it's a fatality.

Never been a killing here. Them

young bloods know better than to mess...

Than to mess with Tyrone Purvis.

You've got quite a reputation

round here, Tyrone.

People say you put some poor

black boy in the grave.

Just people talking.

Uh-huh.

You just remember,

this is my county, Tyrone.

What goes on goes on cos I let it.

Don't want nobody getting too big

for their breeches round here.

You folks have a pleasant evening.

N*gger ain't sh*t in this world.

Speaking for yourself.

You ain't had his club, Tyrone,

what do you think you'd be?

You wouldn't be nothing.

If that ain't truth,

then grits ain't grocery.

TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS

That's a terrible noise.

Just the northbound Talladega.

Sounds like it always does.

Like a soul being carried away

from this life.

Come on in, darling,

before you catch

your death out here.

You're lucky the high sheriff ain't

seen you crawling out that boxcar.

Does he come around here much?

Only when he bored.

You working on a train? Yeah,

Kansas City to New Orleans.

What did you get off here for?

I got people here. How about you?

Got tired of sleeping in a boxcar.

Is there a place to stay

around here?

Shed right over there got a cot.

And don't mind the rats.

Not unless you've got food on you.

I see you and a good meal have

been strangers for some time.

Get into town tomorrow, find you need

something, tell them Shack Thomas sent you.

They'll know who you're

talking about. Thanks.

Name like that sounds like

a good place for a musician.

Only night I ever been in jail

was a town called Liberty.

The sun come up,

you'll see where you landed.

You'd best be out that shed

by first light.

Just a weekday night.

The chicken man or the ice man

At least you don't owe

the electric company.

Yeah, that's a big relief.

You thinking about closing down?

What do you think? The biggest

act in New Orleans.

Got him a hit on the radio.

He's playing here Saturday night.

I'm thinking I wait till Bertha Mae

was gone and I put him up.

Here?

You mean like in this room here?

You know the Tomcat Club

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John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). His film Men with Guns (1997) has been nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), has been added to the National Film Registry. more…

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