When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is forced to fight for his family and legacy while jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
A new joint from the collaborative duo of director Spike Lee and actor Denzel Washington – together previously for Malcolm X (1992), Mo' Better Blues (1990), He Got Game (1998) and Inside Man (2006) – now with their fifth feature, and based on (or rather, remixing) the 1963 film High and Low by Akira Kurosawa.
A dazzling crime drama with a contemporary swagger, co-starring Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky.
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