For the 1944 Benny Goodman film, see Sweet and Low-Down. For the Dave Van Ronk album, see Sweet & Lowdown.
1999 American film
Sweet and Lowdown
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Woody Allen
Written by
Woody Allen
Produced by
Jean Doumanian
Starring
Anthony LaPaglia
Brian Markinson
Gretchen Mol
Samantha Morton
Sean Penn
Uma Thurman
James Urbaniak
John Waters
Cinematography
Zhao Fei
Edited by
Alisa Lepselter
Production company
Sweetland Films
Distributed by
Sony Pictures Classics
Release date
September 3, 1999 (1999-09-03)
Running time
95 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$4,197,015
Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 American comedy-drama mockumentary written and directed by Woody Allen. Loosely based on Federico Fellini's film La Strada,[1] the film tells the story of jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (played by Sean Penn) who falls in love with mute laundress Hattie (Samantha Morton). Like several of Allen's other films (e.g., Zelig), the film is occasionally interrupted by interviews with critics and biographers like Allen, Nat Hentoff, Daniel Okrent, and Douglas McGrath, who comment on the film's plot as if the characters were real-life people.
The film received generally positive reviews upon release,[2] with Penn and Morton receiving Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.
^"Allusions of Grandeur: Sweet and Lowdown". 11 March 2000.
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in recurring and guest-starring roles in many other television dramas and co-starred in a number of films, including SweetandLowdown (1999), Chasing...
film SweetandLowdown, and taught Penn how to mime the performances for the film. The score also featured Bucky Pizzarelli on rhythm guitar and arrangements...
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American actor Sean Penn. Kelly, Richard T. (2005). Sean Penn: His Life and Times. Canongate U.S. p. 219. ISBN 1-84195-739-9. Wells, Jeffrey (November...
directed, and written many films starting in the 1960s. His first film was the 1965 comedy What's New Pussycat?, which featured him as both writer and performer...
Nineties" by the magazine. For her second film with Woody Allen, 1999's SweetandLowdown, she played a minor role which the Greenwich Village Gazette called...
presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1999 and took place on March 26, 2000, at the Shrine Auditorium...
camp for Gypsy jazz musicians and aficionados held at Smith College in Massachusetts. Woody Allen's film SweetandLowdown (1999), the story of a Django...
writer and director Woody Allen. Aronson was born Ellen Letty Konigsberg in 1943 in New York City, to Nettie (née Cherry) and Martin Königsberg, and was...
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Streetcar Named Desire, and has originated roles in plays by David Mamet, John Patrick Shanley and Jez Butterworth. Bauer is of German and Irish descent. He...
(1998), and she ended up on "the cutting room floor".[citation needed] Allen cast her in his next feature, the Academy Award nominated SweetandLowdown, in...
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1943) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in SweetandLowdown (1999), The Honeymooners (2005) and Across the Universe (2007)...