Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

2020 "It would be an empty world without the blues."

6.9 | 1h34m | R | en | Drama

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

6.9 | 1h34m | R | en | Drama , Music

Synopsis

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

Cast

Director

James F. Truesdale

Producted By

Escape Artists , Mundy Lane Entertainment

Trailers

Viola Davis

as Ma Rainey

[2022] The First Lady [2022] Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event [2021] Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist [2021] The Suicide Squad [2021] The Unforgivable [2020] Giving Voice [2020] Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen [2020] Ma Rainey's Black Bottom [2019] Troop Zero

Chadwick Boseman

as Levee

[2021] Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist [2020] Da 5 Bloods [2020] Between the World and Me [2020] Ma Rainey's Black Bottom [2020] Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King [2020] Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen [2019] 21 Bridges [2019] Avengers: Endgame [2018] Black Panther

Colman Domingo

as Cutler

[2022] Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches [2021] The God Committee [2021] Tom Clancy's Without Remorse [2021] Candyman [2020] Trouble Don't Last Always [2020] Ma Rainey's Black Bottom [2020] Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen [2020] Zola [2019] Lucy in the Sky