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Cadillac Records
2008
A period piece that chronicles the rise and fall of influential R&B record label Chess Records. Read more
| Starring | Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union, Beyonce Knowles |
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| Director | Darnell Martin |
| Genres | Drama, Music/Musical |
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Cadillac Records
A period piece that chronicles the rise and fall of influential R&B record label Chess Records.
| Starring | Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union, Beyonce Knowles, Mos Def, Jeffrey Wright, Columbus Short, Norman Reedus, Cedric the Entertainer, Tammy Blanchard, Eamonn Walker |
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| Director | Darnell Martin |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 48 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 48 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Music/Musical |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | Castillian, Catalan |
| Subtitles | DVD: Catalan, Castilian Spanish, Dutch, Hindi, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese, English, Danish, Swedish Blu-ray: Icelandic, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, Romanian, Castilian, Slovene, Danish, Hebrew, Slovak, Greek, Hindi, Czech, Norwegian, French, Portuguese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, English, Swedish, Arabic |
| Released | DVD: 20 Jul 2009 Blu-ray: 20 Jul 2009 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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With a roster of artists including blues legend Muddy Waters, duck-walking icon Chuck Berry, and gutbucket soul diva... read more on Time Out
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
way too sloppy...
If it wasn't for the amazing soundtrack n great casting of some of the all time music legends, i would of given this film a much lower score. The film as a whole was such a mess, n felt unbelievably rushed. Bottom line is, it could of been so much better, and instead i just feel incredibly disappointed.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
way too sloppy...
If it wasn't for the amazing soundtrack n great casting of some of the all time music legends, i would of given this film a much lower score. The film as a whole was such a mess, n felt unbelievably rushed. Bottom line is, it could of been so much better, and instead i just feel incredibly disappointed.
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Cadillac Records
- 16 Feb 2009
“It feels like I met myself for the first time,” marvels McKinley Morganfield, after Alan Lomax plays back his field recording of McKinley playing the blues. The year is 1941, and within ten years, this southern sharecropper’s son will be at the wheel of his own brand new Cadillac, a first generation pop star, of sorts, courtesy of Polish immigrant Leonard Chess and his company, Chess Records. That would be under his stage name: Muddy Waters. Played by Jeffrey Wright –... Read more
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It's hard to imagine a musical landscape without the talents of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Etta James, whose success in the 1950s and '60s still influences artists today.... -
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Cadillac Records
A period piece that chronicles the rise and fall of influential R&B record label Chess Records....
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