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However, IndieWire may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes.There are plenty of heavy-hitters involved with “One Night in Miami,” the feature-length directorial debut from Oscar winner Regina King — both figuratively and literally.
It’s based on the play of the same name by Kemp Powers (“Soul”), an account of the real-life 1964 evening when boxer Cassius Clay won the Heavyweight Championship of the World but was unable to celebrate in Miami Beach because of racist Jim Crow laws.
Instead, he spends the night in with pals Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and football star Jim Brown.
They’re played by Eli Goree (Clay), Kingsley Ben-Adir (Malcolm X), Leslie Odom Jr.
(Cooke), and Aldis Hodge (Brown).The 2021 award season contender is now streaming on Amazon Prime,
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