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Highest 2 Lowest (2025) [R]

Featuring:
Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera

Written by:
Alan Fox
Eijirô Hisaita
Evan Hunter

Directed by:
Spike Lee


Release Date:
August 15, 2025

Original Title:
Highest 2 Lowest

Genres:
Crime | Drama | Thriller

Production Companies:
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
A/Vantage Pictures
A24
Apple Studios
Escape Artists
Mandalay Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: R 

Runtime: 133

All $$ ain't good $$.

Overview from TheMovieDB

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

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Overview from Open Movies

When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. A reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern day New Yo...

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Rankings and Honors

Highest 2 Lowest (2025) on IMDb
Rotten Tomatoes 89%

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Production

"A" Camera Operator:
Julian J. Delacruz

"B" Camera Operator:
Jason Robbins

ADR Editor:
Kenton Jakub

ADR Mixer:
Justine Baker
Mark DeSimone
Brian Magrum
Aaron Southerland

ADR Recordist:
Maya Toffler

Additional Second Assistant Director:
YeJin Joy Kim
DeShaun Wright

Art Department Assistant:
Armon Mahdavi

Art Department Coordinator:
Jin Rhim

Art Direction:
Michael Simmons

Assistant Art Director:
Aimee Dombo Desmond
Lisa Merik
Reid Thompson

Assistant Costume Designer:
Ann Bryant

Assistant Location Manager:
Jason Kadlec
Javier Sarmiento

Assistant Makeup Artist:
Cassandra Ward

Assistant Production Manager:
Lisa Cossrow

Assistant Set Decoration:
Klara Jogalla

Boom Operator:
Steven Visscher

Camera Operator:
Ricardo Sarmiento

Casting:
Kim Taylor-Coleman

Casting Associate:
Emily Fleischer

Co-Producer:
Jordan Moldo

Colorist:
Alex Bickel
Chris Gennarelli

Concept Artist:
Hugh Sicotte
Matthew Jeffrey Sama

Construction Coordinator:
Glen A. Gregory

Costume Coordinator:
Ashley Clemmings

Costume Design:
Francine Jamison-Tanchuck

Costume Supervisor:
Paul A. Simmons Jr.

Costumer:
Craig Anthony
Pattie J. Barbosa

Dialogue Editor:
Julia Stockton

Digital Imaging Technician:
Jeff Flohr

Digital Intermediate Producer:
Alek Rost

Director:
Spike Lee

Director of Photography:
Matthew Libatique

Dolly Grip:
Mike Morini

Drone Operator:
Dexter Kennedy

Editor:
Allyson C. Johnson
Barry Alexander Brown

Electrician:
Robert Bevis

Executive In Charge Of Production:
Mary Beth Minthorn

Executive Producer:
Matthew Lindner
Spike Lee
Peter Guber
Chris Brigham
Katia Washington
Ko Kurosawa

First Assistant "B" Camera:
James Madrid

First Assistant Director:
Joseph P. Reidy

Foley Editor:
Frank Kern

Gaffer:
Sol Saihati
Daniel McCabe

Graphic Designer:
Mason Chesler
Erica Hohf

Grip:
Sol Saihati
Lee Marvin Walker

Hair Department Head:
LaWanda M. Pierre

Key Costumer:
Marta Font
Earl Tanchuck

Key Grip:
Lamont Crawford

Leadman:
Philip Canfield

Lighting Technician:
Benjamin Meads
Ryan Mulholland

Loader:
Lizzy Compton
Jeff Dickerson

Location Assistant:
Ethan Lazarovitch

Location Manager:
Tim Stacker

Location Scout:
Aaron Hurvitz
Jason Kadlec

Makeup Department Head:
Ngozi Olandu

Novel:
Evan Hunter

Original Film Writer:
Ryūzō Kikushima
Eijirō Hisaita
Akira Kurosawa
Hideo Oguni

Original Music Composer:
Howard Drossin

Payroll Accountant:
Ian Buckwalter

Post Production Supervisor:
James Debbs

Producer:
Todd Black
Jason Michael Berman

Production Assistant:
Jack Berk
Laith Zuaiter

Production Coordinator:
Mary R. Rizzo

Production Design:
Mark Friedberg

Props:
Angelica Bianca Jimenez

Publicist:
Lon Haber

Rigging Gaffer:
Mark William Bassett

Scenic Artist:
I. Javier Ameijeiras
Amanda Hagy

Screenplay:
William Alan Fox

Script Supervisor:
Alexandra Torterotot

Second Assistant Director:
Rachel Jaros

Second Second Assistant Director:
Cole Fletcher
Anastasia Folorunso

Second Unit First Assistant Director:
Travis Rehwaldt

Set Costumer:
Christopher Opopo
Makeda Richards

Set Decoration:
Lisa Scoppa

Set Decoration Buyer:
Sacha Piscuskas

Set Dresser:
Jake Spongberg

Sound Effects Editor:
Joseph Winterbotham

Sound Mixer:
Allison Jackson

Special Effects Technician:
Kevin Delatorre-Yanez
John Nesbit
Ryan Nordin

Steadicam Operator:
Julian J. Delacruz

Stunt Driver:
Mike Burke
Victoria Lee Parella
Teéa Loreál
Manny Ayala
Roy T. Anderson
Justin Clarke
Jimmy P. Wong

Stunts:
George B. Colucci Jr.
Tim Gallin
Dina L. Margolin
Joanne Lamstein
Salar Ghajar
Samantha MacIvor
Jamaal Burcher
Niahlah Hope
Jeremy Sample

Supervising Art Director:
Laura Ballinger

Supervising Sound Editor:
Philip Stockton

Tailor:
Darlene Jackson
Minerva Diann Savoy

Truck Costumer:
Jennifer Harrington

Unit Production Manager:
Randy Manion

Utility Sound:
Kathy Lee

Visual Effects Producer:
David C. Sales
Matthew T. Griffin

Visual Effects Supervisor:
George Loucas

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