Looking for Langston

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Released October 31st, 1989, 'Looking for Langston' stars Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji, John Wilson The NR movie has a runtime of about 45 min, and received a user score of 52 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 18 knowledgeable users.

What, so now you want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "A black and white fantasylike recreation of highsociety gay men during the Harlem Renaissance with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story A wake is going on with mourners gathered around a coffin Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty who seems to reject him although when he awakes Beauty is sleeping beside him His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others The text is rarely explicit but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually" .

'Looking for Langston' Release Dates

Watch in Movie Theaters on October 31st, 1989
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting July 31st, 2007 - Buy Looking for Langston DVD