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Downtown '81

  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Music

July 13, 2001 (US)

1h 12m

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we p...

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