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Downtown '81

Release Date:July 13, 2001

Running Time:72 min

Genres:Drama, Comedy, Music

Director

Cast

Jean-Michel Basquiat Saul Williams Anna Shroeder Debbie Harry Giorgio Giomelsky Coati Mundi Debi Mazar George Quinones Walter Steding Steven Brown Eszter Balint Kid Creole

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.

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