![]() ![]() If not, why aren’t you catching up now? As the world of “Trapped in the Closet” continues to expand, R. If you’re familiar with the story, you know what happens next. Playing: Laemmle NoHo 7, North Hollywood.The episodic opera started with the morning after a one-night stand between Sylvester (Kelly, who plays several roles) and Cathy (LeShay Tomlinson), one interrupted when the latter hears her husband coming home, forcing her lover to hide in the closet. “Miles Away” comes off like some low-budget take on “Trapped in the Closet” or a Tyler Perry movie, except it treats kitsch with all sincerity and seriousness. ![]() The moral of director Jimmy Jenkins’ film echoes that of President Obama’s 2008 Father’s Day speech about absentee parents, but that’s the last thing you’ll think of during its tawdry delivery. ![]() For a film about a trumpeter supposedly worthy of comparisons to Miles Davis, the soundtrack sure could use more cool. Filled with gangsters, groupies and musicians on paths of self-destruction, it’s nothing like the realistic - if exaggerated - musicianship and competitiveness shown in “Whiplash.” It also doesn’t sound like anyone involved in “Miles Away” has any affinity for jazz, aside from maybe the acid variety. Though set in present day, the jazz scene depicted here seems stuck in the 1940s. Instead, it comes off like the filmmakers’ wishful thinking of what could have been. The synopsis posted on the film’s website alluding to the travails of a modern jazz great bears little resemblance to the actual movie. In “Miles Away,” jazz trumpeter Michael DeVeaux (Sid Burston) and his attorney-bandmate-brother Byron (Spoon Alexander) confront their multimillionaire father (Michael Simmons) about a menacing stranger claiming to be their illegitimate half brother (Cully Dieter). ![]()
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