# Basquiat (1996)

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**Runtime**: 107 min
**Genres**: Drama, History
**Directed by**: Julian Schnabel
**Written by**: Julian Schnabel, Lech Majewski, John F. Bowe
**Starring**: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper

> *In 1981, a nineteen-year-old unknown graffiti writer took the New York art world by storm. The rest is art history.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Bohemian downtown meets downtown myth reels as a teenage graffiti prodigy wakes up famous overnight, trading subway tunnels for SoHo white walls while the art world’s spotlight fries his sense of self. Thirty months later he’s gone.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, raw

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