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(Sneak Peek) ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’

One of the highly anticipated films of the year, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” will air on Netflix on December 18, 2020. Directed by George C. Wolfe, with a screenplay by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the film is based on the August Wilson play.

The Netflix synopsis is as follows:

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

 

This film has a number of show stopping performance. Credit: Netflix

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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.

 

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020): (L to R) Chadwick Boseman as Levee, Colman Domingo as Cutler, Viola Davis as Ma Rainey, Michael Potts as Slow Drag, and Glynn Turman as Toldeo. Cr. David Lee / Netflix