Honeydripper

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar legend goes awry and Tyrone is forced to take drastic action in a final scheme to save the club.

Honeydripper is a 2008 drama musical movie directed by John Sayles, starring Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, LisaGay Hamilton. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.7/10 from 2,278 votes and runs 2h 4m.