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  1. Get on Up: Directed by Tate Taylor. With Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Viola Davis. A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

    • (26K)
    • Biography, Drama, Music
    • Tate Taylor
    • 2014-08-01
  2. Get On Up is a superb movie for the James Brown music performances! The director Tate Taylor recreated the look and soul to perfection and these performances are worth the price of admission. The movie falls short in the biography of James Brown.

  3. Get on Up is a thoroughly entertaining drama with Boseman shining at its center. Full Review | Oct 22, 2021. Alex Behan Stuff.co.nz. As a biography, it glosses over a lot, but goes to the heart...

  4. With an unforgettable Chadwick Boseman in the starring role, Get On Up offers the Godfather of Soul a fittingly dynamic homage. Read Critics Reviews

    • (172)
    • Tate Taylor
    • PG-13
    • Chadwick Boseman
  5. Get On Up was released on August 1, 2014 in the United States and received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise directed at the performances of the cast (particularly those of Boseman and Ellis), and grossed $33 million worldwide at the box office.

  6. Get On Up is at once the most unconventional biopic I’ve ever seen, and a shaggy composite of all of them. The only real difference is James Brown – but what a difference James Brown makes. Chadwick Boseman dazzles as “The Godfather of Soul” in a performance more Oscar-worthy than Jamie Foxx’s Ray or Will Smith’s Ali.

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  8. Aug 1, 2014 · Like most biopics, “Get on Up” plays like a greatest hits album of its subject’s successes and failures. A life as rich and complicated as Brown’s would require an HBO series. Here was a man who wrote civil rights anthems and suffered through a Jim Crow South, yet who considered former segregationist Strom Thurmond a grandfather figure.

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