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Sweet and Lowdown | sweet_l
JAZZY DUET Morton and Penn attempt to make beautiful music together in ''Lowdown''

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Rated: PG-13; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Samantha Morton and Sean Penn; Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
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By Troy Patterson
Troy Patterson
Troy Patterson is a critic for EW. He lives in Brooklyn.

Woody Allen's 29th feature, Sweet and Lowdown, is an insubstantial mockumentary in which Depression-era jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) pimps, boozes, squanders dough, plays heavenly guitar, steals from friends, shoots at rats, and squints at the ladies -- most notably, a mute laundress named Hattie (Samantha Morton). The beauty of Morton's Oscar-nominated performance is the way she finds, with a gamine's grin and an orphan's pout, more ways to say I love you than Penn's tormented hero could begin to understand.


Posted Jun 13, 2000
 

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