Release dates: May 19, 2025, at Cannes, August 15, 2025, in the United States, and September 5, 2025 on Apple TV+
Director: Spike Lee
Screenplay: Alan Fox
Based on 1963 film High and Low by Akira Kurosawa
That is based on 1959 novel King's Ransom 1959 novel by Ed McBain
Starring: Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, ASAP Rocky
Genre: Psychological thriller, crime, drama
Rating:
Running time: 2 hours 13 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
David King (Denzel Washington), has to decide to save his music company or the life of a someone son. Paul Christopher (Jeffrey Wright), Pam King (Ilfenesh Hadera), Archie/Yung Felon (ASAP Rocky), Detective Earl Bridges (John Douglas Thompson), LaChanze as Detective Bell (Dean Winters), Trey King (Aubrey Joseph), Kyle Christopher (Elijah Wright), Patrick Bethea (Michael Potts), Gabe (Wendell Pierce), Rosa Fuentes (Destiny Frasqueri), Marisol Cepeda (Isis Gaston ("Ice Spice"), Alex Cordova (Frederick Weller), Frankie Da Lunatic (Nicholas Turturro), June York (Jensen McRae), Larry Friday (Andy McQueen), Sula (Aiyana-Lee). Appearing as themselves: Rick Fox, Rod Strickland,Don Lemon, Eddie Palmieri, Anthony Ramos, and Rosie Perez
Production Companies: A24, Kurosawa Production, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Escape Artists, Mandalay Pictures
Distributors: A24, Apple Original Films
Producers: Todd Black, Jason Michael Berman
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
Editor: Barry Alexander Brown, Allyson C. Johnson
Music: Howard Drossin