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Get On Up
Embodying the life story of James Brown, a famous singer, who throughout his life, faces many challenges and obstacles, according to his family's lower class, the thing that effects on his personality. He shows the true meaning of determination, as he manages to achieve a great success through this bad life.
4 April 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
23 June 1980, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
12 September 1970, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
24 December 1953, USA
11 October 1965, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
7 November 1964, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
20 June 1980, Queens, New York, USA
15 February 1986, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
12 August 1965
August 17, 2016
The narrative is unsatisfying as it leaves lots of unanswered questions.
April 18, 2016
Musically explosive, emotionally powerful and flat-out funky, Get on Up tells the outrageous life story of James Brown with a quirky brilliance worthy of the man at its center.
August 01, 2014
More often, the film skates along the surface of Brown's contradictory character. Now if it skated like Brown's dance moves glided onstage, that really would have been something.
March 26, 2016
Boseman is the highlight, of course, and Taylor is smart to keep his leading man front-and-center in every, single scene.
March 21, 2017
Warts and all, in fits and starts, finally the Hardest Working Man in Show Business gets his story told.
April 12, 2016
Worthy of its subject and the dollars of music and film fans alike. As roundly entertaining as any biopic in recent memory.
August 06, 2014
In Boseman's hands - and his feet, and his entire body, for that matter - he demands and earns our attention.
May 29, 2016
As prodigious a talent as Prince was, he only altered the funk. The megalithic, trail-blazing talent of James Brown birthed it. And Chadwick Boseman nails the telling of it.
August 01, 2014
The storytelling is mostly linear, with some confusing back-and-forth in the chronology, and it's a long slog. The Brown who emerges from this film has a monstrous ego to go with his monster talent.
August 01, 2014
Somewhat sanitized and over-directed biopic saved by Boseman's electric performance.
September 05, 2014
Chadwick Boseman gives a startling and galvanic performance.
August 01, 2014
Though "Get On Up" never congeals into a satisfactory whole, its fragmentary portrait of the singer at the height of his fame - intercut with his troubled single-parent childhood - effectively shows his invasive power in popular culture.