Lemon

Synopsis

"So watch me be the artist who was born ready-made/ Watch me take my lemons, and make the best goddamn lemonade." 
Lemon Andersen’s County of Kings

Three-time felon turned poet/performer Lemon Andersen fights for an exit from generations of poverty by bringing his life’s secrets to the NY stage. But revisiting his troubled past has more in store than he bargained for, as he is confronted by his demons time and time again. Yet Lemon – raised by a drug dealer and a car thief - was born to hustle and survive, so when Spike Lee steps in to produce his show, it seems Lemon might finally find the redemption he so desperately seeks.

LEMON unfolds with the intimacy of verite filmmaking, the intensity of a morality tale, and the power of a cliffhanger. At its core is a single character whose honesty both on stage and off lends the film a rare kind of truth. In its resonance, the film speaks poignantly for those living on the margins, battling cyclical poverty and the lure of drugs, and trying to improve their lot in life.  Lemon is a man whose talent is anything but “normal,” but whose dreams are of every man with a history of hardship and the desire for something more for himself and his family.