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In Lackawanna Blues, a jumping juke joint of a film, Rachel ''Nanny'' Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) is bolder than the va-va-voom dresses and flashy cars on display. She opens her boarding house to a hodgepodge of misfits (Delroy Lindo and Jeffrey Wright among them) and, most notably, a boy named Junior (Marcus Carl Franklin). Ruben Santiago-Hudson the real Junior, adapting his 2001 Off Broadway play for the screen is so busy idolizing Nanny that the other characters get short shrift. Still, what Lackawanna lacks in depth it makes up for in vibrancy.
EXTRAS In an eloquent commentary, Santiago-Hudson expands upon his childhood memories and director George C. Wolfe explains his ''control-freak'' tendencies (like handpicking all the extras for their Southern-looking faces). One meaty deleted scene fleshes out Louis Gossett Jr.'s too brief story arc, and in a featurette rife with sound bites, Franklin remarks precociously, ''These people are like windows. Each one, you can see a different path.''
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