United States vs. Billie Holiday

[Hulu Only] Wonderful music and gorgeous period costumes highlight Lee Daniels' captivating, entertaining, well-acted, love-it-or-hate-it, star-studded (Natasha Lyonne, Garrett Hedlund, Leslie Jordan, Rob Morgan, Tone Bell, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Evan Ross, Tyler James Williams, Miss Lawrence, Erik LaRay Harvey, Melvin Gregg, Kevin Hanchard, Tristan D. Lalla, Richard Jutras, and Dana Courrier), 130-minute biographical film based on Johann Hari's novel Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs in which legendary, talented, heroin-addicted, physically abused, jazz singer Billie Holiday (Andra Day) was a sensation on stage between the 1930s and 1950s, is arrested on drug charges, has an affair with a Black federal agent (Trevante Rhodes), and becomes a relentless target of the federal government for her involvement in the civil rights movement.
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