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The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Cast

Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund, Leslie Jordan View All


Crew

Lee Daniels (Director), Suzan-Lori Parks (Screenplay) View All

Release: Apr. 1st, 2021
Runtime: 2 hours, 11 minutes
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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Gideon58
This film on the surface seems more authentic because Louis McKay, the great love of Billie's life in the 1972 film, doesn't appear until the final third of this film and this federal agent doesn't appear in the '72 film at all.


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