One Night in Miami

[Opened Dec. 25 in theaters and available Jan. 15 on Amazon Prime Video.] Regina King's powerful, slow-moving, factually inspired, well-acted, dialogue-heavy, star-studded (Beau Bridges, Michael Imperioli, Lance Reddick, Nicolette Robinson, and Jeremy Pope), 114-minute film adapted from Kemp Powers' 2013 stage play in which Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World Cassis Clay/Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree) meets at a Miami motel room on Feb. 25, 1964, with three famous and influential friends, including Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), singer Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), and NFL football player Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), to celebrate his surprise victory against boxer Sonny Liston (Aaron D. Alexander) and end up discussing how they can use their positions to positively affect the civil rights movement.
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