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Basquiat   1996             R, 108 min. Genre: Drama Director: Julian Schnabel   Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Parker Posey, Jean-Claude La Marre, Elina Lowensohn, Paul Bartel, Courtney Love, Tatum O'Neal   This is the biography of the young American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright) who began as a graffiti artist and soared to fame in the 1980s (due, in part, to the sponsorship of Andy Warhol) and was dead from a heroin overdose at the age of 28.    1 User Review User Review Left me gazing at the stars reconsidering art and life Iowa Girl 11/01/2011    The obvious bounty of actors/actresses did not prove to overtake the life story of Basquiat. I first watched this movie in a Senior Seminar at Drake University in Des Moines, IA. The class was Writing about Art, something like that, and my two passions were rolled into one semester of intelligent thinking, observation and writing. This movie made a huge impact on me, and maybe it was the timing -- one semester past 9-11, but it made me reevaluating the intersections of life and art, artists and business, and the delicate line that seems to pull each away from the other. Love David Bowie! Cast Jeffrey Wright Jean Michel Basquiat Michael Wincott Rene Ricard Benicio Del Toro Benny Dalmau Claire Forlani Gina Cardinale David Bowie Andy Warhol Dennis Hopper Bruno Bischofberger Gary Oldman Albert Milo Christopher Walken The interviewer Willem Dafoe The Electrician Parker Posey Mary Boone Jean-Claude La Marre Shenge Elina Lowensohn Annina Nosei Paul Bartel Henry Geldzahler Courtney Love Big Pink Tatum O'Neal Cynthia Kruger