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Lackawanna Blues is a 2005 American biographical drama television film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. It aired on HBO on February 12, 2005. It is based on the play of the same name by Santiago-Hudson.
- Biographical Drama
In the 1950s and '60s, young Ruben Santiago Jr. (Marcus Franklin) lives in a lively boardinghouse in the blue-collar town of Lackawanna, New York, with his f...
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Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York , during the 1950s and 1960s.
NR 1 hr 35 min Feb 12th, 2005 Drama, Music. In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives ...
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- S. Epatha Merkerson
- George C. Wolfe
- HBO Films Good Shepherd Entertainment
Page 1 of 4, 7 total items. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. In the 1950s and '60s, young Ruben Santiago Jr. (Marcus Franklin) lives in a ...
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- George C. Wolfe
- TV-14
- S. Epatha Merkerson
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York. In the 1950s and 1960s, Ruben Santiago-Hudson Jr. lives in a lively boardinghouse in the blue-collar town of Lackawanna, New York, with his father after his ...
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