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

Overview

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

Top cast

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Self (archive footage)

Michael Holman

Self

Fab 5 Freddy

Self

Jim Jarmusch

Self

Patricia Field

Self

Lee Quiñones

Self

A

Alexis Adler

Self

C

Coleen Fitzgibbon

Self

J

Jennifer Jazz

Self

Carlo McCormick

Self

M

Mary-Ann Monforton

Self

Jamie Nares

Self

G

Glenn O'Brien

Self

Felice Rosser

Self

L

Lucy Sante

Self

S

Sur Rodney Sur

Self

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