Devil in a Blue Dress
by Carl Franklin
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Actor: Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Jennifer Beals, Maury Chaykin, Tom SizemoreDirector: Carl Franklin
Brand: Sony
Writer: Carl Franklin
Producer: Donna Gigliotti
Producer: Edward Saxon
Producer: Gary Goetzman
Producer: Jesse Beaton
Producer: Jonathan Demme
Writer: Walter Mosley
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Devil in a Blue Dress
Movie Review: Thank the Devil
Summary: 4 Stars
today I watched Devil in a Blue Dress on cable (satellite actually, but that's not the point...). while the headliner of the movie was the excellent-as-usual Denzel Washington, what makes this movie noteworthy for me -the reason i've seen it so many times- is the film's REAL star: Don Cheadle, whose character Mouse Alexander brought a bit of Texas gangster into the noirish gumshoe flick.
Cheadle's performance was so authentic that he was universally praised (winning the LA Film Critics and National Society of Film Critics Awards, as well as nomination from the Screen Actors Guild for best supporting actor) , even when the movie as a whole wasn't.
Director Carl Franklin (Nowhere to Run, One False Move) managed to craft a film that stands as an example in black cinema, not of what is generally done, but what should be. adapted from the novel of the same name by Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress manages to be more than a period noir flick or a "black movie"... it adresses issues of love, race, infidelity, etc with an easy hand. but beyond all that, it gave me a new actor to identify with in Cheadle, whose star is still rising...
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Summary of Devil in a Blue Dress
Easy rawlins is a world war ii vet who accepts $100 to find daphne monet a lady whos involved with a wealthy mayoral candidate. Central avenue in 1948 los angeles is where the action returns time and time again. When easy goes there looking for daphne the woman he meets winds up dead. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Denzel Washington Tom Sizemore Run time: 101 minutes Rating: R Director: Carl FranklinDespite rave reviews as one of the most stylish and intelligent detective pictures in a number of years, this 1995 adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel never found a mass audience. Too bad, because Carl Franklin's film is nearly perfect in every way, from its rich, shadowy look to its depiction of life in post-World War II black America (L.A.-style) to the acting of Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, and others. Washington plays Easy Rawlins, an aircraft factory worker who is laid off only to find his true calling: as a private eye, albeit an unlicensed one. Hired to find a missing woman, he becomes entangled in a complex but satisfying case involving sex, corruption, racism, and of course money. Top-notch from top to bottom--and Cheadle is dangerously funny as Easy's best friend, a killer named Mouse. --Marshall Fine
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