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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

R11/25/2020Drama, Music1h 33m
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It would be an empty world without the blues.

Overview

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Viola Davis

    Ma Rainey

  2. Cast 1

    Chadwick Boseman

    Levee

  3. Cast 1

    Colman Domingo

    Cutler

  4. Cast 1

    Glynn Turman

    Toledo

  5. Cast 1

    Michael Potts

    Slow Drag

  6. Cast 1

    Jeremy Shamos

    Irvin

  7. Cast 1

    Jonny Coyne

    Sturdyvant

  8. Cast 1

    Taylour Paige

    Dussie Mae

  9. Cast 1

    Dusan Brown

    Sylvester

**Viola Davis as the Queen of the Blues** The events of the film take place on the 1st day in the year 1927, and one place is a recording studio for music albums. We start with the preparation of the studio for the blues legend Marini, accompanied by her close entourage, and a team of musicians led by the ambitious young man, Levee, who has a new and open perspective on the relationship of black artists to the recording studios run by whites, which is a conflicting perspective. Wholly with Ma Rainey's personal vision. This conflict with other conflicts govern the events of this difficult da...