Ethan Hawke lights up the screen as jazz legend Chet Baker, whose tumultuous life is thrillingly reimagined with wit, verve,
and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous
trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast
jazz scene and an icon of cool. By the 1960s, he was all but washed up,
his career and personal life in shambles due to years of heroin
addiction. In his innovative anti-biopic, director Robert Budreau zeroes
in on Baker’s life at a key moment in the 1960s, just as the musician
attempts to stage a hard-fought comeback, spurred in part by a
passionate romance with a new flame (Carmen Ejogo).
