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In the 1950s and 1960s, Ruben Santiago-Hudson Jr. lives in a lively boardinghouse in the blue-collar town of Lackawanna, New York, with his father after his parents separate. Run by the motherly Nanny Crosby and her taciturn husband, the boardinghouse residents, including The Bandleader, singer Pauline and cabaret owner Dick Barrymore, teach the young boy about life and art.
In the 1950s and '60s, young Ruben Santiago Jr. (Marcus Franklin) lives in a lively boardinghouse in the blue-collar town of Lackawanna, New York, with his father (Jimmy Smits) after his parents separate. Run by the motherly Nanny Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) and her taciturn husband (Terrance Dashon Howard), the boardinghouse residents, including The Bandleader (Mos Def), singer Pauline (Macy ...
11 feb 2005 · The film has moments of sadness and heartache, and many treacly ones, hammered home by the blind singer Robert Bradley crooning the blues on sidewalks and backdoor stoops, but "Lackawanna" is at ...
15 mar 2019 · “Lackawanna Blues,” Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s theatrical memoir about being raised by a big-hearted proprietor of a boardinghouse for castaways and strays in an industrial upstate New York ...
Reviewed by: Amber Wilkinson. Ruben Santiago-Hudson and George C Wolfe have created a film that will warm even the hardest of hearts. S Epatha Merkerson is outstanding in the central role of Rachel "Nanny" Crosby, a New York boarding house owner in the Fifties and Sixties, whose generous spirit touches everyone who lives there. Junior (Hill ...
Lackawanna Blues (TV Movie 2005) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Lackawanna Blues pays homage to an era gone by, taking an affectionate look at the ties that bind an African-American community in the period just before desegregation. The drama takes place primarily as a flashback to Santiago-Hudson's childhood, starting with his birth in the upstate NY town of Lackawanna during a raucous Friday-night fish fry hosted by Rachel "Nanny" Crosby (S. Epatha ...
