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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

6.8/ 1020181h 18m

Documentary

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.

Directed by Sara Driver

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Behind the frames

3 stills

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Self (archive footage)

Michael Holman

Michael Holman

Self

Fab 5 Freddy

Fab 5 Freddy

Self

Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch

Self

Patricia Field

Patricia Field

Self

Lee Quiñones

Lee Quiñones

Self

Alexis Adler

Self

Coleen Fitzgibbon

Self