Amazing Grace

[Available on various VOD platforms and played Feb. 26 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] Wonderful, uplifting gospel music dominates Sydney Pollack's entertaining, inspirational, captivating, star-studded (Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Rev. James Cleveland, Bernard Purdie, Chuck Rainey, Clara Ward, Cornell Dupree, and father C. L. Franklin), 89-minute, 2018 concert documentary that showcases iconic, legendary "queen of soul" gospel singer Aretha Franklin who recorded her multiplatinum album Amazing Grace over two days with the Southern Baptist Community Choir at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in Los Angeles in January 1972 singing songs such as Holy Holy, Amazing Grace, Climbing Higher Mountains, and I Say a Little Prayer.
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