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Rating: 7 stars

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All movies seen on 08/27/2025

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Highest 2 Lowest (2025)

Directed by Spike Lee

Crime | Mystery | Music

Overview

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

Rated R | Length 133 minutes

Actors

Denzel Washington | Jeffrey Wright | Ilfenesh Hadera | Aubrey Joseph | Elijah Wright | Rakim Mayers | John Douglas Thompson | LaChanze | Dean Winters | Wendell Pierce | Michael Potts | Frederick Weller | Rick Fox | Rod Strickland | Rosie Perez | Anthony Ramos | Eddie Palmieri | Nicholas Turturro | Aiyana-Lee Anderson | Ice Spice | Nuri Hazzard | Princess Nokia | Jensen McRae | Jade Cayne | Imana Breaux | Andy McQueen | Sunni Valentine | Samm Davis | Allison Worrell | Eoin O'Shea | Gregory Dann | Don Lemon | Herman Olivera | Nelson Gonzalez | Joseph Gonzalez | Luques Curtis | Camilo Molina-Gaetan | Vincente Rivero | Jose Claussell | Conrad Herwig | Jimmy Bosch | Brad Mason | Manuel Ruiz | Louis Fouche | Ivan Renta | Katia Washington | Jackson Lee | Kevin D. Benton | DeShawn Harold Mitchell | Kevin Sibley | Craig Castaldo | Imani Coleman | Nadera Johnson | Valerie Ryme | Jezziah Ubiles | Rickey Pageot | Evyn George | Jeremy Sample | Manny Joseph | José Báez | Trevor E. Dickerson | Jay Gaudi | Holden Goodman | Jason Hewitt | Tom Johnson | Nichia Morales | April A. Reeves | Reinaldo Troya

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Opening movie of the 2025 fall semester season, supplied by Sundance in what they said will be a regular thing to kick off each semester.

Very packed audience with an equal mix of patron of the arts types and students.

Upside: free movie (only had to pay for parking) and a movie that isn’t easy to see in theater; closer to Boulder than Centerra or Sloans Lake.

Downside: packed crowd of newbies (more chatter than usual incl. right behind me); tight fit with most of the seating filled (student cougher / breather next to me). Bad angle at the screen bc I had to seat near the front to the side.

Probably evens out. Bonus: producer and writer for Q&A, which was enlightening and interesting to hear.

One of the takeaways is that they still had to pay the Kurosawa Production Co. for the rights bc rather than doing an adaptation of the book, they were in a deal for a remake of the High and Low film. So just to renew the rights to produce the remake they had to front $150K. Also, this remake has been in development hell since 1989. crazy

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