NPR News: 'Highest 2 Lowest' is a tour of Spike Lee's many influences

'Highest 2 Lowest' is a tour of Spike Lee's many influences
Spike Lee's new crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest reunites him with his favorite leading man, Denzel Washington. The film is based on Akira Kurosawa’s classic High and Low, and it’s a tense story about a very rich man with a very big problem. Part morality play and part action movie, Washington plays a music mogul who confronts questions of responsibility and power when he believes his son has been kidnapped. Follow Pop Culture Happy Hour on Letterboxd at letterboxd.com/nprpopculture

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