Low Down 2015 Movie

A look at the life of pianist Joe Albany from the perspective of his young daughter, as she watches him contend with his drug addiction during the 1970s jazz scene. More details

Directors

Jeff Preiss

Cast

John Hawkes Elle Fanning Glenn Close Peter Dinklage

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biography drama music ex convict reference to vishnu the hindu deity drug addiction drugs pianist makeup doll hands shooting gun nickname neighbor hypodermic needle reference to europe writing making a valentine bathroom wheezing sleeping chinese chinese food mandarin breaking an egg reference to billy strayhorn shoe polisher headdress victrola reference to clifford brown reference to booker little reference to eric dolphy jazz trumpeter cowboy costume spaghetti jail release polishing shoes watching a movie watching a movie on tv watching tv giving a toast reference to the night of the hunter the novel reference to davis grubb reference to lester young reference to charlie parker scat singing singing microphone reference to thelonious monk stairway reference to over the rainbow the song child welfare services probation reference to max roach vending machine injection rock 'n' roll passport rock band band rehearsal seizure epileptic seizure scrapbook chain smoking confession piano bar vomiting bar punched in the nose hit in the face reference to jimmy carter ginger ale face slap taxi coming of age reference to paris france reference to cole porter fired from the job reference to god pay phone urination laundromat brutality police brutality epilepsy forest woods hope policeman policewoman telephone call telephone crying man boyfriend girlfriend relationship fifty something drug dealer illness hand kissing year 1988 slow motion scene writer los angeles california stealing money reading rain homework schoolyard school gurney elevator death little boy friendship friend midget reading a magazine magazine parole officer parole dream fire escape marijuana pot smoking pipe smoking 13 year old reference to little women the novel tomboy jail visitation jail candy kiss eyeglasses peephole looking at oneself in a mirror mirror freeze frame singer mother son relationship mother daughter relationship overhearing sex sex drunkenness drink drinking restaurant cafe liar alcoholic melodica park reference to the vine theatre hollywood chopsticks the eating utensil reference to alice cooper drums drummer asian indian music rolling pin tomato band father meets daughter after school cologne toy train door buzzer male carries female over shoulder balloon reference to jesus christ homecoming teenage boy falling to the floor reference to mayfair stores injecting drugs into one's foot what happened to epilogue son rests his head on his mother's lap telephone book meditation qigong public defender hall of fame prostitute father daughter reunion mother daughter reunion returning home fan the person accepting charges on a telephone call telephone hangup klonopin rooftop canary birdcage lie promise single mother single father abandoned by father drug overdose teenage girl tears crying sunglasses sadness listening to a radio knocking on a door abandoned by mother valentine's day valentine reference to palm springs california debt repeated scene looking out a window grandmother granddaughter relationship inhaler asthma heroin addict heroin listening to music record player recording cigarette smoking trumpet player trumpet prologue money voice over narration photograph f word hollywood california year 1974 drug use drug addict memory father daughter relationship 1960s jazz pianist jazz music piano musician death of mother

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