Downtown 81
DramaNot Rated
Box Office: $0.0M
When Announced | When Released | |||
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In Theaters | N/A | |||
On 4K-UHD | Not Available | Alert Me | Remind Me | |
On Blu-ray | March 24 2020 | Now Available | ||
On DVD | August 27 2002 | Now Available |
PRINCIPAL CAST
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Deborah Harry
DIRECTOR
Edo Bertoglio
SYNOPSIS
Starring the legendary American painter, graffiti artist, poet and musician Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), DOWNTOWN 81 is both a post-modernist fairytale and a vivid depiction of the downtown New York art and music scene in the early 1980s. The film chronicles a day in the life of a 19 year-old starving artist (Basquiat) who must raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. Hoping to sell a painting to earn the rent, he wanders the downtown streets, painting in hand, encountering painters, models, junkies, graffiti artists, rappers and rockers whose lives and performances provide a slice of life from one of the most exciting periods in American culture.
GENRE
Drama
RATING
Not Rated
RUN TIME
75 Minutes