'Highest 2 Lowest' is a tour of Spike Lee's many influences
Monday, 18 August 2025 () 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.
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'Highest 2 Lowest' director Spike Lee chats with THR at the film's premiere in New York and breaks down the film's tagline and reuniting with Denzel Washington after 19 years.
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Highest 2 Lowest Movie Trailer HD - US Release Date: 2025
Starring: A$AP Rocky, Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright
Director : Spike Lee
Synopsis: When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely..
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington reunite in Highest 2 Lowest, a gripping reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low. When a music mogul finds himself caught in a ransom plot with moral..
Monday, 18 August 2025 ()
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