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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Honeydripper

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 67% - Fresh
Theatrical Performance
Total US Gross $267,880
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Released December 28, 2007 (exclusive)
February 1, 2008 (expansion to wide release)
June 24, 2008 (DVD Sale)
MPAA Rating PG-13 for brief violence and some suggestive material.
Distributed by Emerging Pictures
Source Original Screenplay
Major Genre Drama
Country United States
Production Method Live Action
Creative Type Historical Fiction
Time Frame 1950-1960
Director John Sayles

Synopsis

It’s 1950 and it’s a make or break weekend for Tyrone Purvis, the proprietor of the Honeydripper Lounge. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to bring back the crowds that used to come to his place. He decides to lay off his long-time blues singer Bertha Mae, and announces that he’s hired a famous guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one night only gig in order to save the club.

Into town drifts Sonny Blake, a young man with nothing to his name but big dreams and the guitar case in his hand. Rejected by Tyrone when he applies to play at the Honeydripper, he is intercepted by the corrupt local Sheriff, arrested for vagrancy and rented out as an unpaid cotton picker to the highest bidder. But when Tyrone’s ace-in-the-hole fails to materialize at the train station, his desperation leads him back to Sonny and the strange, wire-dangling object in his guitar case. The Honeydripper lounge is all set to play its part in rock n’ roll history.

Cast

Danny Glover    Tyrone Purvis
Lisa Gay Hamilton    Delilah
Charles S. Dutton    Maceo
Vondie Curtis-Hall    Slick
Stacy Keach    Sheriff
Sean Patrick Thomas    Dex
Tom Wright    Cool Brreze
John Sayles    Zeke
Mary Steenburgen    Amanda Winship

Weekend Chart Record

DateRank Gross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
1/4/2008 57 $7,376   4 $1,844 $23,153 10
1/11/2008 70 $4,076 -44.74% 2 $2,038 $30,394 17
1/18/2008 56 $18,140 +345.04% 26 $698 $50,276 24
1/25/2008 83 $5,947 -67.22% 5 $1,189 $65,389 31
2/1/2008 54 $21,972 +269.46% 10 $2,197 $88,793 38
2/8/2008 56 $33,903 +54.30% 19 $1,784 $124,037 45
2/15/2008 67 $18,673 -44.92% 17 $1,098 $157,768 52
2/22/2008 75 $12,099 -35.21% 14 $864 $174,264 59
2/29/2008 76 $16,543 +36.73% 11 $1,504 $195,668 66
3/7/2008 74 $12,683 -23.33% 13 $976 $214,660 73
3/14/2008 78 $10,860 -14.37% 8 $1,358 $233,905 80
3/21/2008 82 $7,051 -35.07% 6 $1,175 $245,143 87
3/28/2008 96 $6,375 -9.59% 7 $911 $255,174 94
4/4/2008 103 $4,018 -36.98% 4 $1,004 $259,192 101
4/11/2008 121 $1,150 -71.38% 1 $1,150 $260,351 108
4/18/2008 122 $856 -25.57% 1 $856 $261,206 115
4/25/2008 121 $1,467 +71.38% 1 $1,467 $262,673 122
5/2/2008 128 $548 -62.64% 1 $548 $263,221 129
5/9/2008 121 $1,618 +195.26% 1 $1,618 $264,839 136
5/16/2008 121 $749 -53.71% 1 $749 $265,588 143
5/23/2008 109 $913 +21.90% 1 $913 $266,501 150
5/30/2008 117 $717 -21.47% 1 $717 $267,218 157
6/6/2008 119 $251 -64.99% 1 $251 $267,469 164
6/13/2008 122 $160 -36.25% 1 $160 $267,629 171
6/20/2008 116 $250 +56.25% 1 $250 $267,880 178

Daily Chart Record

DateRank Gross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
1/1/2008 -  $2,318   4 $580 $15,777 5

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