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I Called Him Morgan

I Called Him Morgan (2016)

September. 05,2016

7.3

| History Documentary Music

Part jazz history, part true-crime tale, Kasper Collin’s new documentary employs extensive archival footage and new interviews to tell the tragic story of the magnificently talented trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who murdered him in a New York bar in 1972.

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Cast

Lee Morgan as Self (archive material)

[2016] I Called Him Morgan

Wayne Shorter as Self

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Larry Reni Thomas as Self

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Reviews

Pluskylang

2016/09/05

Great Film overall

Kien Navarro

2016/09/06

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Fatma Suarez

2016/09/07

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Rosie Searle

2016/09/08

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.