Downtown '81 backdrop
Downtown '81 poster

Downtown '81

6.6 / 10
2001
72 min
Drama
Comedy
Music

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.