Honeydripper Page #9

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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# Oh, oh, China Doll

# I think about you day and night

# Oh, baby

When you gonna treat me right? #

INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION

KEYS THUMP:

SAXOPHONE PLAYS:

INAUDIBLE EXCHANGE

Y'all are in my house here,

gentlemen!

Don't have no fighting,

don't have no killing.

Don't have none of that

dismal nonsense in my house!

You understand?!

What's your name, son?

Dex.

Dexter Moncrieff. And you?

H- H-Hamilton Drinkwater.

Well, gentlemen, this is a night

there won't be no pitiful song

written about you two

killing each other.

Don't nothing rhyme with Moncrieff

anyhow! We got a problem here?

Yeah, these two gentlemen seem to have

brought something in for our collection.

Yeah? You first.

Now yours.

Y'all still wanna mess with each

other, you go outside and do it.

This world is full of people

who got no use for us,

like to see us in the grave.

We don't need to give them any help.

# Oh, China Doll

# I gotta let you into my heart

# Oh, oh, China Doll

# I gotta let you into my heart

# Oh now, baby

You had me from the start... #

MUSIC CONTINUES IN DISTANCE

Sound like the music moving on

again, don't it?

It always do.

Time to make room

for whoever coming next.

That boy can play some.

Leaving?

I ain't needed around here no more.

Where you headed?

Oh...

Down the road.

Tyrone.

Who you talking to out here?

Just myself.

# It started with a 12-bar

country moan

# Then the guitar bass

dropped the saxophone

# Up the Mississippi River

came the song

# Music keeps rolling, rolling on

# The music

# Keeps rolling on

# Use the fender

To make the notes spark

# Then the bass guitar

got electrified

# Blues are rocking

Like a good ole stomp

# And the music keeps rolling on

# The music

# Keeps rolling on

# Whoo-hoo!

# Whoo!

# The music keeps

# The music keeps

# Yes, I said

The music keeps rolling on

# The music keeps rolling on

# The music

# Keeps rolling on

# Ye-e-es! Huh! #

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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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