Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Movie review score
4/5
Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions rise between Ma Rainey, her ambitious horn player and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable “Mother of the Blues”. Based on Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s play.
Director: George C. Wolfe
Writers: Ruben Santiago-Hudson (screenplay by), August Wilson (based on the play by)
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Glynn Turman
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