Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[Netflix Only] Terrific costumes, jazz music, and sets and Oscar-caliber performances highlight this captivating, entertaining, powerful, well-acted, factually inspired, moving, 94-minute film adapted from August Wilson's Pulitzer-Prize-winning play in which tempers flare and tensions quickly escalate when a tenacious white manager (Jeremy Shamos) hires an ambitious, talented, shoe-loving, hot-headed, trumpeter (Chadwick Boseman) and other backup musicians (Colman Domingo, Glynn Furman, and Michael Potts) to accompany the legendary, flamboyant "Mother of the Blues" singer (Viola Davis), who is accompanied by her gorgeous bisexual girlfriend (Taylour Paige) and stuttering nephew (Dusan Brown), at a recording session at a Chicago studio in 1927.
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