Being the Ricardos

[Opens Dec. 10 in theaters and available Dec. 21 on Amazon Prime Video.] Aaron Sorkin's creative, engaging, factually inspired, well-acted, star-studded (Tony Hale, Clark Gregg, Linda Lavin, Jake Lacey, Alia Shawkat, Nelson Franklin, John Rubinstein, Robert Pine, and Christopher Denham), 125-minute film that goes behind the scenes of the beloved, popular, slapstick I Love Lucy sitcom show during one week in the 1950s in which redheaded comedian Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and her musician Cuban husband Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) rehearse for their show with costars (J. K. Simmons and Nina Arianda) who play their neighbors and then the couple deals with her pregnancy, accusations that Lucy is a Communist after she allegedly registered as a Communist Party member in the 1930s, and their tumultuous, volatile marriage that may sidetrack their careers.
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