Whiplash – 10th Anniversary

'Whiplash' is electric from beginning to end, a musical story of obsession, frustration and outright cruelty built on two knockout performance ” Tom Long Detroit News

A masterpiece returns to theaters for its 10th Anniversary. Before Babylon and La La Land there was Whiplash, Directors Damien Chazelle’ dazzling Opus.

A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential.

Starring Miles Teller and JK Simmons (in an Oscar-winning performance) as an aspiring jazz musician and his tyrannical teacher. It has since become regarded as a modern classic, rivetingly depicting that the pursuit of greatness is not always pretty.

Rating
MA 15+
Duration
107 MINS

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