Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Movie • 2020 • Drama
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When Ma Rainey, the "Queen of the Blues," makes a record in a studio in Chicago, 1927, tensions boil between her, her white agent and producer, and bandmates.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Levee tells that his father was hanged, but it is not shown.
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there is mention of someone being burned while lynched in the past
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a character tells the story of his father’s death
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dussie mae is in some kind of relationship with ma rainey, but hooks up with levee
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Used liberally by Black characters among themselves. A few examples where a Black character is telling a story where a white person said it.
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It's mostly Black people in this movie, and there are deaths discussed in the past, and one death shown on screen.
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