Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
“It would be an empty world without the blues.”
6.6/ 10 1,295 votes 2020-11-25 1h 33m 7 popularity
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.
Director: George C. Wolfe
Viola Davis
Ma Rainey
Chadwick Boseman
Levee
Colman Domingo
Cutler
Glynn Turman
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Michael Potts
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Jeremy Shamos
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Jonny Coyne
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Taylour Paige
Dussie Mae
