The Riff (2000)
Directed by Mark W. Allen
Genres - Drama, Music |
Sub-Genres - Showbiz Drama |
Run Time - 92 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Buzz McClain
New Orleans music promoter Adam Goodnight (newcomer Cameron Smith) has his checkered past revived when a failed musician, Shoop Summers (old timer Antonio Fargas), takes Adam's new protégé, Kenny Carter (Mister Jones), under his drug-addled wing. Goodnight begins having flashbacks to a time when Shoop was on top of the jazz charts, and he also remembers what happened to end Shoop's productive career -- and end their friendship. Goodnight sees it all happening again with Kenny. Goodnight's beautiful and intelligent girlfriend, Heather (Nia Peeples), is helpless to stop the drama.
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girlfriend, helpless, jazz, music-promoter, underworld