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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
Season BFI Black Star

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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