One Night in Miami .

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#OneNightInMiami

Inspirational stuff…from Powers😇 To decide to embark upon an entirely new and entirely risky career well past Hollywood's usual sell-by age(….and, uh, race), and then end up with not one, but two, #Oscar frontrunners in the *same* year…in two *wildly* different genres…man, there's hope for us all(…well, for those who can write as well as he does😏)!

Great cast, and, yeah, the lead quartet is aces. Those are some mighty big shoes to fill…Denzel & Big Willie…nah, I keed, I keed😜. These are four of the biggest midcentury historical figures, no?, and to have the guts to try to portray them in an age where everything is picked apart, and to portray them during a pivotal point in mainstreaming the Civil Rights struggle(I'll need to check with TBH on that one, my knowledge of history is, well…ya know…🙄), kudos to them all, especially the always great Hodge* and kid Goree who sorta steals the show from right under his better-known scene partners.

Good acting usually points to good directing(take this with a pinch of salt, since it comes from me🤗), and King passes her first test with some nice flying colours(that Boston concert sequence👏).

* [Spoiler Alert] That scene with Bridges…holy bleep! They'll be studying that in playwriting, screenwriting, drama, theatre, filmmaking class for years to come😳!

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