CADILLAC RECORDS (2009)

DARNELL MARTIN

Drama Music True Stories 1950s 1960s Blackness, Race & Ethnicity

Cast

ADRIEN BRODY JEFFREY WRIGHT GABRIELLE UNION COLUMBUS SHORT CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER MOS DEF BEYONCE KNOWLES

Plot

This dramatic history of Chicago's Chess Records has a superb soundtrack(though it consists almost entirely of covers) and its insights into the relationship between white money making businessmen and poor black talent back in the stifling '50s more than makes up for its overwrought melodrama, historic inaccuracies and poor script.