Stormy Monday (1988) on Netflix
Brendan, an Irishman in Newcastle upon Tyne, takes a janitorial job at Mr. Finney's Key Club. Kate, an American waitress he meets, has worked for the businessman Francis Cosmo.
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Plot summary
Brendan answers an advertisement for a janitorial job at the Key Club in Newcastle upon Tyne and is hired by the owner, Mr. Finney, once the two find they both care about jazz. Finney also asks him to meet the Kraków Jazz Ensemble at the airport. Kate, an American, is in the city for America Week, whose guest of honor is Francis Cosmo, a corrupt businessman from New York. Kate worked for Cosmo in the past, posing as a prostitute on his behalf. At the restaurant where she waits tables, Brendan overhears two men discussing a buyout of Finney's club and making clear they would kill him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Stormy Monday (1988)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- When the U.S.-based Atlantic Releasing put up financing, a suggestion was made that Stormy Monday be recast with American actors, after which Melanie Griffith and Tommy Lee Jones were cast as Kate and Cosmo.
- Stormy Monday takes its title from blues guitarist and singer T-Bone Walker's signature song, "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)".
