Arts Cars
Mos Def and Ryan Reynolds star as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, who’ve moved out of downtown Manhattan to the Queens suburbs, and open an auto detailing shop together, and discover the world is ready for modern art cars, giving Pacers and Gremlins, and old Datsuns tricked out paint jobs, often featuring grotesque, childish figures that quietly comment on social ills, or overt advertising perverted into art. After accidentally painting over the Grateful Dead bumper sticker on a city councilman’s Subaru, Jean-Michel and Andy are forced to defend their art to the local better business bureau, in a hearing that becomes a microcosm of the 1980s debate over art and commercialism.