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BBFC RatingBlack Star: What's Love Got to do with it

Certificate18
Year1993
GenreBiography
Director(s)Brian Gibson
CountryUSA
Running Time1HR 53MINS

Join us in celebrating some of cinema’s greatest talents in Black Star, a major new season from the BFI.

Black Voices: A season of films featuring legendary singers and iconic performances; stories of love and life, hardship and redemption…and dancing.

Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett were Oscar®-nominated for their portrayal of explosive husband and wife R&B duo Ike and Tina Turner.

The film charts Tina’s rise to stardom and her struggle to break free from Ike’s terrifying domestic abuse. Bassett gives a career-defining performance that immortalises the journey of a woman and artist discovering her voice.

Other films in the BFI Black Star: Black Voices programme are:

Dreamgirls

Purple Rain

The Harder They Come

The Wiz


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