Downtown '81

Drama, Comedy, Music

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Edo Bertoglio

Status Released

Release Date 2001-07-13

Storyline

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.