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Film · 2021
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
2h 11mRDirected by Lee Daniels
- Music
- Drama
- History
Her voice would not be silenced.
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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Cast
Andra DayBillie Holiday
Trevante RhodesJimmy Fletcher
Garrett HedlundHarry Anslinger
Leslie JordanReginald Lord Devine
Miss LawrenceMiss Freddy
Adriane LenoxMrs. Fletcher
Natasha LyonneTallulah Bankhead
Rob MorganLouis McKay
Da'Vine Joy RandolphRoslyn
Evan RossAgent Williams
Tyler James WilliamsLester 'Prez' Young
Tone BellJohn Levy
Details
- Director
- Lee Daniels
- Writer
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Music
- Kris Bowers
- Cinematography
- Andrew Dunn
- Editor
- Jay Rabinowitz
- Producer
- Lee Daniels, Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum
- Release
- March 31, 2021
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- Rated
- R
- Language
- Mandarin, English, French
- Studio
- Lee Daniels Entertainment, Roth-Kirschenbaum Films
- TMDB score
- 6.5 / 10 from 324 votes
Where to watch
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