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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short & Beyoncé Knowles | |
Performer: | Eamonn Walker, Emmanuelle Chriqui & Cedric the Entertainer | |
Directed by | Darnell Martin | |
Screenwriting by | Darnell Martin | |
Composition by | Terence Blanchard | |
Produced by | Sofia Sondervan & Andrew Lack | |
Director of Photography: | Anastas Michos | |
Executive Production by | Beyoncé Knowles |
Entertainment Reviews:
[Beyonce Knowles] performs dynamic versions of Etta James classics and delivers the dramatic goods as the troubled and badly addicted young woman who lives the blues she sings.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 3/5 --
The music is great, so energetic and vital it leaves the drama looking unfocused in comparison. Beyoncé, singing her heart out, is the pick of a very impressive line-up.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Darnell Martin takes some dramatic licence with the tale of Chess Records. But it's an enthralling story nonetheless, and the outstanding ensemble cast - together with a primal, heart-thumping blues soundtrack - make it a blast from start to finish.
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Roll Credits
Rating: 4/5 --
The music is good, the suits are sharp, but it's the outstanding performances that wow. Walker is electrifying as Howlin' Wolf and Beyoncé - playing Etta James - has never been so sultry and sexy.
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Times (UK)
Jeffrey Wright is superb as Muddy Waters. Columbus Short is scarily mercurial as Little Walter.
Wall Street Journal
Knowles captures James' emotional vulnerability and is substantially better than she was in DREAMGIRLS....She shines most when singing.
USA Today
Mos Def makes a terrific Berry, all flash and confidence, and Wright offers a memorably soulful take on Waters...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
CADILLAC RECORDS is a writer/director Darnell Martin's riveting ensemble film depicting the rise, in the early-‘50s to late-‘60s, of key musical figures at the crossroads between blues, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll. Based on the true story of the original Chicago-based purveyors of electric blues, Chess Records, it centers on two men: Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody), a Polish-Jewish nightclub owner; and Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), a transplanted Mississippi sharecropper with sights set on musical stardom. After hearing Waters's electrified Delta blues during a tussle at his nightclub, Chess decides to pool his resources into releasing what were then called "race records." Soon a coterie of label talent, from Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, to Chuck Berry and Etta James, help to propel the fledgling label to the top of the charts--with each hit-maker rewarded by Chess with a shiny new Cadillac automobile. While sometimes playing loose with some minor historical points, the film truly hits the mark with its attention to visual detail, from costumes and cars, down to vintage recording equipment, all of it is a feast for period buffs. But what truly makes CADILLAC RECORDS captivating are the exceptional musical performances of Beyonce Knowles (Etta James) and Mos Def (Chuck Berry), two of the finest musicians-turned-actors of their time. Ultimately, CADILLAC RECORDS' most potent message may be the boundless ability that much of this music had in transcending the unsettling realities facing blacks of the time. From Payola (the practice of bribing disc jockeys to play "race records") and segregation, to white performers pilfering songs written by blacks, all of it is handled with admirable aplomb in this enjoyable, often edifying, film.
Product Description:
Cadillac Records chronicles the rise of Leonard Chess’ (Adrien Brody) Chess Records and its recording artists including Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short), Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Willie Dixon (Cedric The Entertainer) and the great Etta James (Beyonce Knowles). In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in Chicago of the 1950s and 60s, the film follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's greatest musical legends
Keywords:
True Story
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Blues
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Folk Music
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Rhythm And Blues
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Theatrical Release
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Blues Music
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Music
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Singers
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1950s
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Blues Singers
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1960s
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Musicians
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- Sales Rank: 30,058
- UPC: 043396294660
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