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Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Dexter Gordon François Cluzet Lonette McKee Bobby Hutcherson Herbie Hancock Christine Pascal
Genre: Drama Musical
Premiere: September 12, 1986
Running time: 133 min
Country: France USA

Round Midnight is a 1986 American musical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by Tavernier and David Rayfiel. It stars Dexter Gordon, with a soundtrack by Herbie Hancock. The title comes from Thelonious Monk's 1943 composition "'Round Midnight", which is featured in this film in a Hancock arrangement.

The protagonist jazzman, Dale Turner, is based on a composite of real-life jazz legends Lester Young (tenor sax) and Bud Powell (piano). While the film is fictionalized, it is drawn directly from the memoir/biography Dance of the Infidels written by French author Francis Paudras, who had befriended Powell during his Paris expatriate days and on whom the character Francis was based.

Gordon was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Grammy for the film's soundtrack entitled The Other Side of Round Midnight in the category for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Soloist. Hancock won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack was released in two parts: Round Midnight and The Other Side of Round Midnight.

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Round Midnight is a movie (1986) from France and USA. Genre: drama, musical. Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Starring Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Lonette McKee, Bobby Hutcherson and Herbie Hancock. Running time: 133 min. Rating: 10.0/10.

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