Basquiat

Release Date:

Aug 9, 1996

MPAA Rating:

R

Running Time:

1:48

Genre:

Biography

Director:

Julian Schnabel

Cast:

Jeffrey Wright	Jean Michel Basquiat
Michael Wincott	Rene Ricard
Benicio Del Toro	Benny Dalmau
Claire Forlani	Gina Cardinale
David Bowie	Andy Warhol
Dennis Hopper	Bruno Bischofberger
Gary Oldman	Albert Milo
Christopher Walken	The Interviewer
Willem Dafoe	The Electrician
Parker Posey	Mary Boone
Elina Lowensohn	Annina Nosei
Paul Bartel	Henry Geldzahler
Tatum O'Neal	Cynthia Kruger
Chuck Pfeiffer	Tom Kruger
Courtney Love	Big Pink

Producers:

Joseph Allen , Jon Kilik , Peter Brant , Lech Majewski , Sigurjon Sighvatsson , Michiyo Yoshizaki , Randy Ostrow

Writers:

Julian Schnabel, Lech Majewski, John F. Bowe

Language:

English

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Despite living a life of extreme poverty in Brooklyn, graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat strives to rise up through the heady New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s. He becomes the brightest star of neo-Expressionist painting and one of the most successful painters of his time, and even develops a friendship with Andy Warhol . But Basquiat's tumultuous life, specifically his addiction to heroin, overshadows his rise to fame, threatening all.

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