A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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Chadwick Boseman
James Brown
Nelsan Ellis
Bobby Byrd
Dan Aykroyd
Ben Bart
Viola Davis
Susie Brown
Lennie James
Joe Brown
Fred Melamed
Syd Nathan
Jill Scott
DeeDee Brown
Octavia Spencer
Aunt Honey
Nick Eversman
Mick Jagger
Tika Sumpter
Yvonne Fair
Director
Tate Taylor
Screenplay
John-Henry Butterworth
Tagline
"The Funk Don't Quit"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$30,000,000
Revenue
$33,448,971
Production
Jagged Films, Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures
r96sk
October 25, 2020
Chadwick Boseman is terrific, but <em>'Get on Up'</em> is missing something that would make it a great biopic. I still very much enjoyed it, I always tend to find biographical films interesting - especially when I don't know too much about the person(s) in question, as is the case with James Brown here; I've always known of him and his major songs, but that's about it. Boseman leads strongly...
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