Highest 2 Lowest
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- NPR ([email protected])
- Published
- Mon 18 Aug 2025
- Episode Link
- https://www.npr.org/2025/08/18/nx-s1-5503765/highest-2-lowest-is-a-tour-of-spike-lees-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.
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