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Friday, April 14, 2023: Audio described movie What's Love Got to Do with It
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What's Love Got to Do with It

Rating: R

Run Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Raised in Nutbush, Tennessee in the early 1950s, Anna Mae Bullock returns
from being sent home from her Baptist church for oversinging when she sees
her mother Zelma leaving her home, this time for good. Returning back to her
house, she is distraught over her mother leaving and is consoled by her
grandmother Georgeanna. Six years later, a teenage Anna Mae relocates to St.
Louis, where she reunites with her elder sister Alline and her mother. While
in St. Louis, Anna is taken by Alline to a nightclub at East St. Louis
where, after viewing a performance by charismatic bandleader named Ike
Turner and his band the Kings of Rhythm, she pursues a position to sing with
Turner after noting women coming onstage to sing with the musician. One
night, Anna finally gets her chance to perform for Ike and impresses the
bandleader so much that he offers to mentor her and produce her music. In
time, Ike and Anna develop a close friendship.

As the first front woman of the Kings of Rhythm, along with the formation of
a backing girl group, later known as the Ikettes, Anna develops a local
popularity at the St. Louis club scene. However, after Ike's girlfriend,
Lorraine Taylor, shoots herself after confronting Anna on rumors she and Ike
had slept together, she and Ike begin an unexpected romance. After recording
the hit, "A Fool in Love", Anna becomes pregnant with their son Ronnie and
Anna learns, while in the hospital, that her name has changed to Tina Turner
after the radio station announces the name "Ike & Tina Turner" following the
playing of "A Fool in Love". Though told she was anaemic and in need of
three weeks rest in hospital following her pregnancy, Ike takes Tina out of
the hospital and convinces her to marry him in Tijuana. Problems begin
developing between Ike and Tina almost immediately after "A Fool in Love"
when Tina complains of being overworked, angering Ike to the point he
verbally abuses her before a show at the Apollo Theater. Despite this, when
Tina takes the stage that night to perform the song, the Ike & Tina Turner
Revue becomes a national sensation and relocates to Los Angeles. Upon
learning that Ike & Tina have moved to Los Angeles, Lorraine Taylor makes an
unexpected visit to their new home and drops off Ike's previous children,
Ike Jr. and Michael, with Tina's other sons Craig and Ronnie, which further
complicates matters at home.

One day while at home, Tina voices her opinion that Ike's music "all sounds
the same", which leads to Ike beating her in front of their four sons.
Following a performance on a teen rock and roll show in 1966, Tina is
offered a solo deal with Phil Spector for the song, "River Deep - Mountain
High", which upsets Ike, though he takes the $25,000 Spector offers to keep
out of the studio. Following the song's successful launch, Ike & Tina
celebrates by having lunch at a diner, but this ends when Tina gets into a
fight with Ike over him offering her a piece of pound cake, leading to a
public fight, which leads to one of the Ikettes, a close friend of Tina's,
leaving after Ike slaps her. Fed up with Ike's abuse one morning, Tina calls
her mother Zelma telling her she was leaving Ike and heading back to St.
Louis. But while on their way back, Ike learns of their whereabouts and
drags Tina back to California. While opening for the Rolling Stones in
London, Ike & Tina find success with their recording of "Proud Mary", which
transforms the Revue from a national R&B phenomenon to an international
sensation. Overtime, crowds begin clamoring more to Tina than Ike, which
causes further tension as Ike discovers cocaine.

During one recording session of the song, "Nutbush City Limits" in 1973, an
addicted Ike verbally attacks Tina for not singing the song properly,
blaming her for the duo's issues in following their previous hits. After
hitting Tina repeatedly, he initiates raping Tina. Finding no chance of
escape, one night, Tina overdoses a full bottle of sleeping pills before a
show and is rushed to a hospital where she recovers. Tina eventually visits
a friend, a former Ikette, who convinces her to practice Buddhism and the
chant Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo, telling her that the chanting would "change her
life". Though skeptical, Tina attempts it and soon begins feverishly
chanting, to the shock of onlookers, including Ike, who is distracted by the
new Tina. Then, in 1976, while en route to a show in Dallas, a fed-up Tina
begins to annoy Ike. While in the limousine on their way to the hotel, Ike
and Tina engage in a physical fight which leaves them both bloodied and
battered. Upon their entry, Ike falls asleep and Tina makes her escape with
only her purse. Afraid of being found out, Tina runs to the back of the
hotel and faces oncoming traffic before arriving at a Ramada Inn where she
pleads to the hotel manager that she needs a room despite only having 36
cents on her person, the manager agrees and gives Tina the room. Tina later
files for divorce and in the final matter, Tina agrees to give up everything
except her stage name, which is granted.

In 1980, Tina begins rebuilding her career at the cabaret circuit and
invites a young impresario named Roger Davies to see her perform so he could
manage her and help her realize her dreams as a rock star. Impressed that
she still could perform, Davies agrees to manage her. Still, the presence of
Ike threatens to derail her chances. After one rehearsal, Ike spots her and
tries to convince her to return back to him. When she refuses, Ike gets
belligerent and Tina leaves before Ike becomes violent. One night, around
1983, while watching an interview of herself on TV, a battered Ike Jr. comes
to her house, warning her that Ike has plans of killing her. Turning to her
Buddhist faith, she prepares for a show at the Ritz Theatre where Ike
confronts her at her dressing room with a gun. Undeterred, Tina verbally
silences him and leaves the dressing room where she dazzles the audience at
the Ritz with her new hit single, "What's Love Got to Do with It" where she
eventually realizes her dream of being a rock superstar.

Cast

Angela Bassett as Tina Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock

Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly as young Anna Mae

Cora Lee Day as Grandma Georgiana

Khandi Alexander as Darlene

Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner

Jenifer Lewis as Zelma Bullock, Tina's mother

Phyllis Yvonne Stickney as Alline Bullock

Penny Johnson Jerald as Lorraine Taylor

Vanessa Bell Calloway as Jackie

Chi McBride as Fross

Sherman Augustus as Reggie

Terrence Riggins as Spider

Bo Kane as Dance Show Host

Terrence Evans as Bus Driver

Rob LaBelle as Phil Spector

James Reyne as Roger Davies

Richard T. Jones as Ike Turner Jr.

Shavar Ross as Michael Turner

Damon Hines as Ronnie Turner

Suli McCullough as Craig Turner

Elijah B. Saleem as teenage Ike Turner Jr.

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