Get on Up

Memorable music highlights this well-acted, entertaining, nonlinear, star-studded (Dan Aykroyd, Octavia Spencer, Allison Janney, Jill Scott, and Tika Sumpter), 138-minute biopic of talented Godfather of Soul James Brown (Chadwick Boseman) from his abusive, impoverished childhood as a young boy (Jamarion Scott and Jordan Scott) growing up with his neglectful parents (Viola Davis and Joe Brown) in the backwoods of 1930s Georgia to his rocky rise to fame with his band members (Nelsan Ellis, Craig Robinson, et al).
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