Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 11/08/2005
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DD1
Run Time: 143 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
Diana Ross plays the magnificent, tragic song stylist
Billie Holiday, who while writhing in a strait jacket in a prison cell, awaiting sentencing on drug charges, reflects on her turbulent life. Raped in her youth by a drunk (
Adolph Caesar), then compelled to work as a domestic in a Harlem whorehouse,
Holliday is encouraged to try for a singing career by the bordello's pianist (
Richard Pryor). She rises as high as it is possible to go in the white-dominated show business world of the 1930s, but can't handle the pressure and turns to narcotics. The film takes several liberties with the 44-year existence of "Lady Day." Among the
Billie Holiday standards performed by
Ross are
"My Man," "I Cried for You," "Lover Man," "Them There Eyes," and the title song.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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