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Release Date: Dec 5, 2008
Running Time: 108 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
starring:
Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyonce Knowles, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Cedric The Entertainer, Tammy Blanchard, Mos Def, Norman Reedus
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The rise and fall of Chess Records, which launched the careers of Muddy Waters, Etta James and Chuck Berry. Leonard Chess scoured the South, checking out the various blues scenes and selling records from the back of his Cadillac.
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PETER TRAVERS -
December 18, 2008
Beyoncé Knowles could have nabbed an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress. That's how good she is playing it all sexy, sassy and druggy as Etta James, the R&B singer who found the soul in songs like "At Last." Too bad for Knowles that she's only part of Darnell Martin's rushed mess of a movie that jams the story of Chicago-based Chess Records into one incoherent package. Adrien Brody plays Leonard Chess, who started the company in the 1950s with his brother Phil (we hardly see him) to…
Cadillac Records simply rocks. This movie seems to have it all -- a musical dream machine with some of the best acting and singing you will see this year. Story Chronicling the rise of blues label Cadillac Records, this rollicking musical charts the emergence of the blues musicians as popular hit makers and leads up to the birth of rock and roll. Focusing on several well-known early blues and rock legends, Cadillac Records mixes issues of race, infidelity, payola, violence and other things --… cast + crew
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Leonard Chess
Muddy Waters
Etta James
Geneva Wade
Little Walter
Revetta Chess
Willie Dixon
Isabelle Allen
Chuck Berry
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