Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

About Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) is a music film directed by George C. Wolfe. Its themes are singer, 1920s, lesbian relationship, and black LGBT.

Viola Davis appears as Ma Rainey, Chadwick Boseman as Levee, Colman Domingo as Cutler, and Glynn Turman as Toledo. At 93 minutes long, it arrived in November 2020.

The screenplay is by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. The film began as a stage production. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States.

The Color Purple, Carol, and Chicago make useful companions to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, all filed under based on play or musical. TMDB voters put it at 6.6 out of 10 across 1,300 votes and it carries a R rating.