Highest 2 Lowest

Name: Highest 2 Lowest
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Released: 2025-08-14
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 5.468

★ 5,5 /10 (507 Votes)

2025 EN 133 min

Overview

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.

Stream

Release date

14/08/2025

Votes

507

Popularity

7.8

All $$ ain't good $$.

Genres

Thriller Crime Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

133 min

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$1,500,000

Website

a24films.com

Denzel Washington

David King

Jeffrey Wright

Paul Christopher

Ilfenesh Hadera

Pam King

A$AP Rocky

Yung Felon

John Douglas Thompson

Det. Earl Bridges

Dean Winters

Det. Higgins

LaChanze

Sgt. Bell

Aubrey Joseph

Trey King

Elijah Wright

Kyle Christopher

Michael Potts

Patrick Bethea

Wendell Pierce

Gabe

Princess Nokia

Rosa Fuentas

Ice Spice

Marisol Cepeda

Frederick Weller

Alex Cordova

Rick Fox

Coach Rick Fox

Rod Strickland

Coach Rod Strickland

Rosie Perez

Anthony Ramos

Nicholas Turturro

Frankie Da Lunatic

Aiyana-Lee

Sula Janie Zimmie

Nuri Hazzard

Luther

Jensen McRae

June York

Jade Cayne

Dolly

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Imana Breaux

Stackin' Hits Employee

Andy McQueen

Larry Friday

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Sunni Valentine

Julie Tucker

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Samm Davis

Shabazz

Allison Worrell

Police Tech Dillon

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Eoin O'Shea

Officer McGillicuddy

Gregory Dann

Officer Bolton

Don Lemon

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Eddie Palmieri

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Piano

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Herman Olivera

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Lead Vocal

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Nelson Gonzalez

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Tres Guitar - Vocals

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Joseph Gonzalez

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Maracas - Vocals

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Luques Curtis

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Bass

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Camilo Molina-Gaetan

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Timbales

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Vincente Rivero

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Congas

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Jose Claussell

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Bell

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Conrad Herwig

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Trombone

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Jimmy Bosch

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Trombone

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Brad Mason

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Trumpet

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Manuel Ruiz

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Trumpet

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Louis Fouche

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Alto Saxophone

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Ivan Renta

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra - Baritone Saxophone

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Katia Washington

Chanting Yankees Fan #1

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Jackson Lee

Chanting Yankees Fan #2

Kevin D. Benton

Chanting Yankees Fan #3

DeShawn Harold Mitchell

Double Dope

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Kevin Sibley

Kevin

Craig 'Radio Man' Castaldo

Man on Train

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Imani Coleman

Yung Felon's Dancing Lady #1

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Nadera Johnson

Yung Felon's Dancing Lady #2

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Valerie Ryme

Yung Felon's Dancing Lady #3

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Jezziah Ubiles

Yung Felon's Dancing Lady #4

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Rickey Pageot

Pianist

Evyn George

Gym Goer

Jeremy Sample

Randy

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Manny Joseph

Big Money

Cooper Traluch

Puerto-Rican festival-goer (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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Based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film High and Low, which was loosely based on the 1959 novel King Ransom by Ed McBain (the pen name of Evan Hunter), Highest 2 Lowest is Spike Lee’s modern-day reimagining. David King (Denzel Washington) is a music mogul making his fortune as having “the best ears in the business.” He established Stackin’ Hits Records, which was a huge record label for black artists in the early 2000s. In the modern day, David lives in a penthouse suite overlooking all of New York City with his wife Pam (Ilfenesh Hidera) and 17-year-old son Trey (Aubrey Joseph). But he isn’t o…

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Director Spike Lee is known for having made his share of fine films (“Do the Right Thing” (1989), “Malcolm X” (1992), “She’s Gotta Have It” (1986), “BlacKkKlansman” (2018) and “Da 5 Bloods” (2020), among others), as well as his share of misfires (“Chi-Raq” (2015), “Red Hook Summer” (2012) and “Bamboozled” (2000), to name a few), but rarely do his pictures fall squarely in the largely indistinguishable middle. Such is the case, however, with the filmmaker’s latest outing, a reinterpretation of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa Japanese crime thriller, “High and Low” (“Tengoku to jigoku”), a remake admitt…

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Denzel is the man. Spike Lee is a GOAT. A24 tends to be the bee's knees. Kurosawa...more GOATed film pedigree. ASAP Rocky also great. Apple ooooh they're a big company. Some could argue the best company... This movie starts off with 2 minutes of some annoying prick's NY vacation footage. Old men and their technology. Spike Lee. You're just like Scorsese. Past due. Please stop making boring movies and maybe you'll get some of that attention again. Ride the wave. You invented this shit. Fuck you.

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