'Honeydripper' is a swinging good time

(B+) From his home base in New Jersey to Louisiana, Texas, Alaska and Florida, novelist-turned-filmmaker John Sayles has crisscrossed the country weaving sprawling stories in such films as City of Hope, Passion Fish, Lone Star, Limbo and Sunshine State. Unique among his peers, Sayles travels his own road dramatizing an Americana streaked with social realism and a touch of the magical.

By Kevin Crust

March 21, 2008