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Plot summary
In 1966, jazz trumpeter Chet Baker is released from an Italian jail on parole and hired to star as himself in a movie about his early career, the years when he first tried heroin. He begins a romance with Jane Azuka, the actress playing his first wife, though she enters it warily, aware of his reputation. On their first date, drug dealers he owes money to beat him and smash his front teeth, ruining his embouchure. Unable to play better than a novice, Chet practices with prosthetic teeth while a probation officer checks that he is employed and he sticks to methadone treatment. As his technique slowly improves, Jane and his old producer Dick Bock help him look for work and a way back to the stage.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Born to Be Blue (2015)
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- For his trumpet scenes as Chet Baker, Ethan Hawke took lessons from Ben Promane and asked for video of Kevin Turcotte recording the film's trumpet audio, so that he could mime the playing during the shoot.
