Special Features:
Production Notes � Cast and Filmmaker Biographies � Theatrical Trailer

As the follow up to the brilliant Do The Right Thing, I think Mo' Better Blues is often overlooked. People were expecting something more in your face and political than a film about a temperamental jazz musician. For whatever reason this film grabbed me from the first time I saw it in the theater. Spike's direction, Ernest Dickerson's cinematography and Bill Lee's score along with each actor's performance mesh so well together. Sure some of the musicians and the Jewish club owners are a little stereotypical (but not necessarily inaccurate), but I think that fits perfectly into Bleak's (Denzel Washington) self centered world. He is the king, which is part of his problem, and once some of the castle walls start to crumble he is very vulnerable.

Note: The sequence where Denzel goes back and forth with his two girlfriends is still one of the most perfectly conceived pieces of film making that any director as put together.