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Advance screenings:
Fri 16 Apr - Sun 18 Apr
Starts Thu 22 Apr at: Luna Leederville session times. BOOK TICKETSClick on a session time to buy tickets ... Luna On SX session times. BOOK TICKETSClick on a session time to buy tickets ... Saturday, 17 April 1:15PM 6:15PM The legendary Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, spent much of her career being adored by fans across the globe. Beginning in the 1940s in New York City, the federal government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to escalate and racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial and heart-wrenching ballad, “Strange Fruit.”
Led by Oscar® nominated director Lee Daniels (Precious) and introducing Grammy® nominated singer-songwriter Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday unapologetically presents the icon’s complicated, irrepressible life. Screenplay writer Suzan-Lori Parks (Girl 6 Their Eyes Were Watching God), the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, pens this intimate tale of a fierce trailblazer whose defiance through music helped usher in the civil rights movement.
Academy Award nomination - Best Actress in a Leading Role (Andra Day).
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