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Born to Be Blue

2015, Movie, 1h 37min

Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.

Country: United Kingdom,Canada

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Reviews

Critic Sheila O'Malley

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The film is carried by the performance of Ethan Hawke, a performance that understands Baker's appeal, Baker's demons and eventual unwillingness to fight those demons...

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

...his weathered pretty-boy face fits the troubled trumpeter-vocalist’s legend to a T; in a delicate performance, he emotes subtle notes of tragedy and manipulation through a wheezy, upper-register voice.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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...about the troubled jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, shown making a tempestuous career comeback in the 1960s.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Liz Beardsworth

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Ethan Hawk (...) gives another first-class performance as legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, a role he’d longed to play since he was a teenager.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Jacob Andersen

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I de yngre år placerede Hawkes sarte udstråling ham i rollen som den sjælfulde knægt, og det er samme energi, han spiller på her.

Read full review at Soundvenue

Frequently asked questions

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Born to Be Blue is a 2015 jazz musical drama film directed by Robert Budreau that tells the story of the legendary West Coast jazz musician Chet Baker. The film is described as "semi-factual, semi-fictional" by Variety's reviewer Andrew Barker because it takes the real-life story of Chet Baker as its starting point but then embellishes it with fictional elements. The film is set largely in 1966 and follows Baker, portrayed by Ethan Hawke, as he tries to make a comeback after years of struggling with drug addiction by taking on a role in a movie about his earlier years when he first tried heroin

Where can I stream Born to Be Blue? Toggle content

You can stream Born to Be Blue on: Amazon Store

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