Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

(2017)

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Synopsis

This documentary recounts and contextualizes the early career of New York City graffiti artist-turned-acclaimed painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. His romantic partners and friends are interviewed as well as his street art contemporaries and icons of hip-hop culture, which informed his art before his death from a heroin overdose at age 27.

Directors

Sara Driver, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Felice Rosser, Alexis Adler, Glenn O'Brien, Al Diaz, Jim Jarmusch, Carlo McCormick, Patricia Field, Sara Driver, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Jean Labadie

Production year

2017

Rating

Studio

Magnolia Pictures

Runtime

78 minutes

Cast

Fred Brathwaite, Lee Quinones, Rodney Sur, Patricia Field, Diego Cortez