Highest 2 Lowest

Highest 2 Lowest
Highest 2 Lowest
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Directed by	Spike Lee
Screenplay by	William Alan Fox
Based on	High and Low; by Akira Kurosawa; Hideo Oguni; Ryūzō Kikushima; Eijiro Hisaita; ; King's Ransom; by Evan Hunter;
Produced by	Todd Black; Jason Michael Berman;
Starring	Denzel Washington; Jeffrey Wright; Ilfenesh Hadera; ASAP Rocky; Ice Spice;
Cinematography	Matthew Libatique
Edited by	Barry Alexander Brown; Allyson C. Johnson;
Music by	Howard Drossin
Production; companies	A24; Apple Studios; Escape Artists; Mandalay Pictures; 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; A/Vantage Pictures;
Distributed by	A24; Apple Original Films
Release dates	May 19, 2025 (Cannes); August 22, 2025 (United States); September 5, 2025 (Apple TV+);
Running time	133 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by William Alan Fox. It is an English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself loosely based on the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter). It stars Denzel Washington, Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, ASAP Rocky, and Ice Spice (in her film debut).

The film had its world premiere out of competition of the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2025, and is scheduled be released theatrically in the United States by A24 on August 22, 2025, before it will be made available on Apple TV+ on September 5, 2025.