Plot
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Cast
as Emmet Ray
as Hattie
as Al Torrio
as Blanche Williams
as Harry
as Mr. Haynes
as Ellie
as Jake
as Ann
as Bill Shields
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Presented in a documentary style, this drama looks at the life of the fictional jazz guitarist "Emmet Ray" (Sean Penn). Now, of course, he is American so is naturally the best in the whole wide world, well second best actually, and that is testified to by frequent obsequious pieces-to-camera from purported experts and then by his own performances as he plays standards from the likes of Django Rei…