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Medicine for Melancholy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Barry Jenkins released in USA on 7 march 2008 with Wyatt Cenac

Medicine for Melancholy (2008)

Medicine for Melancholy
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Released in USA 7 march 2008
Length 1h28
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romance
Rating65% 3.295133.295133.295133.295133.29513

Medicine for Melancholy is a 2008 independent film by Barry Jenkins, starring Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins, and Elizabeth Acker. The film appeared at several film festivals in 2008, including South by Southwest, Maryland Film Festival, and The Toronto International Film Festival.

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Medicine for Melancholy chronicles the one-day romance of Micah (Wyatt Cenac) and Jo’ (Tracey Heggins), two Black twenty-somethings, who have a one night stand and end up spending a full day and night together, despite Jo’s long-distance relationship with a wealthy, white gallery owner. The characters wake up in someone else's bed after a party, and head their separate ways. Jo' leaves her wallet in their shared taxi, and they reconnect when he returns it to her at her apartment. Throughout the day, Micah and Jo' visit the Museum of the African Diaspora, stumble upon an affordable housing coalition meeting, and attend a concert. Venturing around San Francisco, the characters discuss race and gentrification with regard to the low percentage of African Americans living in San Francisco. Micah is openly critical of Jo's interracial relationship, as he struggles to reconcile his African American identity with the very white world of the Hipster scene in San Francisco.

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