Their uncle Doaker (Samuel L. Jackson, who gives one of his best, and least bombastic, screen performances) sizes them up and laughs, “Berniece ain’t gonna sell that piano.” Every ti...
” John David Washington, who played Boy Willie in the Broadway version as well, is seven years older than his brother Malcolm, whose sister Katia joins Denzel among the film’s producers. O...
It critiques a racist system of incarceration, which Boy Willie experienced, and the even darker legacy of vigilante justice, which claimed not just their father, but also Berniece’s husband, Cr...
The film comes alive as Lymon buys a new silk suit, following the young men out on the town to the Hill District’s legendary Crawford Grill. Boy Willie has his ideas for the future, but Berniece...