Editing Sweet and Lowdown (section)

{{About||the 1944 Benny Goodman film|Sweet and Low-Down|the Dave Van Ronk album|Sweet & Lowdown}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Sweet and Lowdown
| image          = Sweet_lowdown_moviep.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Woody Allen]]
| producer       = [[Jean Doumanian]]
| writer         = Woody Allen
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Anthony LaPaglia]]
* [[Brian Markinson]]
* [[Gretchen Mol]]
* [[Samantha Morton]]
* [[Sean Penn]]
* [[Uma Thurman]]
* [[James Urbaniak]]
* [[John Waters]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Zhao Fei]]
| editing        = [[Alisa Lepselter]]
| studio         = Sweetland Films
| distributor    = [[Sony Pictures Classics]]
| released       = {{Film date|1999|9|3}}
| runtime        = 95 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          = $4,197,015
}}
'''''Sweet and Lowdown''''' is a 1999 American [[comedy-drama]] [[mockumentary]]  written and directed by [[Woody Allen]]. Loosely based on [[Federico Fellini]]'s film ''[[La Strada]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/279/film-review/allusions-grandeur | title=Allusions of Grandeur: Sweet and Lowdown | date=11 March 2000 }}</ref> the film tells the story of jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (played by [[Sean Penn]]) who falls in love with [[Muteness|mute]] laundress Hattie ([[Samantha Morton]]). Like several of Allen's other films (e.g., ''[[Zelig]]''), the film is occasionally interrupted by interviews with critics and biographers like Allen, [[Nat Hentoff]], [[Daniel Okrent]], and [[Douglas McGrath]], who comment on the film's plot as if the characters were real-life people.

The film received generally positive reviews upon release,<ref name="tomatoes" /> with Penn and Morton receiving Oscar nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] and [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]], respectively.