BASQUIAT (1996)

JULIAN SCHNABEL

Art House Drama Painting / Sculpture 1980s Luke's Lushes Blackness, Race & Ethnicity Biopic Recommended

Cast

JEFFREY WRIGHT DAVID BOWIE DENNIS HOPPER GARY OLDMAN MICHAEL WINCOTT COURTNEY LOVE CLAIRE FORLANI PARKER POSEY

Plot

Low-key biopic of graffiti vandal turned New York darling Jean-Michel Basquiat. Catapulted to art-world super-stardom after a chance meeting with Andy Warhol, the obscene amounts of money his paintings suddenly command soon sends him down the slippery slope of big-time drug abuse. Enthralling.