In ROUND MIDNIGHT, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon plays an expatriate black jazz musician and his struggle to create the bebop sound in 1959 Paris. The story portrays his losing battle with alcoholism and how his life is hanging on by a thread in the 1950's New York jazz world.
Cast: | Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Lonette McKee |
Director: | Bertrand Tavernier |
Studio: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Producer(s): | Irwin Winkler |
Writer(s): | David Rayfiel, Bertrand Tavernier |