Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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.
- Released: 2020-11-25
- Runtime: 94 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Music
- Stars: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts, Jonny Coyne, Taylour Paige, Jeremy Shamos, Dusan Brown, Joshua Harto, Quinn VanAntwerp, Antonio Fierro, Roger Petan, Daniel Johnson
- Director: George C. Wolfe
Comments
- johnseegers - 13 January 2023
Worthless Drivel
This mediocre play brought to the screen is a pathetic waste of time. Over the top theatrics. Deliberate contrived racial conflict for the sake of fomenting anger. And let me get this straight the white music producers are the bad guys yet our main character stabs an old man to death over a scuff on his shoe? Yeah this record producers are some bad guys. I'm sorry Chadwick died but he has been made it to a martyr/saint when was never anything but a fair actor at best. I watch this stuff and try my hardest to to find a single thing that helps elevate the race issues in our society. In fact manipulative, simplistic theatre like this seems to actual make it worse. - NijazBaBs - 22 January 2022
bad like most oscars
As always, similar to most other oscars, and about some famous person I never heard about. Talk dominates. Negativity, arguing, childish behaviors and problems. No lesson. Nothing to see. Just ordinary negative emotions, behaviors, and talk. Talking about God, Jesus, justice. I found that even my life is more interesting than this movie. Just looking outside of screen made me feel better. Can't really figure out why such movies get Oscar, and looks like because it is the topic (famous person) that is the reason.
