Based on Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s play.
Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions and temperatures rise over the course of an afternoon recording session in 1920s Chicago as a band of musicians await trailblazing performer, the legendary “Mother of the Blues,” Ma Rainey (Viola Davis). Late to the session, the fearless, fiery Ma engages in a battle of wills with her white manager and producer over control of her music. As the band waits in the studio’s claustrophobic rehearsal room, ambitious trumpeter Levee (Chadwick Boseman) — who has an eye for Ma’s girlfriend and is determined to stake his own claim on the music industry — spurs his fellow musicians into an eruption of stories revealing truths that will forever change the course of their lives.
SCREENPLAY BY: Ruben Santiago-Hudson BASED ON THE PLAY WRITTEN BY: August Wilson DIRECTED BY: George C. Wolfe PRODUCERS: Denzel Washington, p.g.a., Todd Black, p.g.a., Dany Wolf CAST: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts, Jonny Coyne, Taylour Paige, Jeremy Shamos, Dusan Brown, Joshua Harto
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