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  1. Get On Up is a 2014 American biographical musical film about the life of singer James Brown and is directed by Tate Taylor and written by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth.

  2. Jul 31, 2014 · Get On Up, the fascinating and convulsive new James Brown biopic starring the extraordinary Chadwick Boseman, is a movie that conducts the crackling electricity of Brown's music with a...

  3. Aug 1, 2014 · To fact-check the movie’s most unbelievable scenes, I spoke with R.J. Smith, whose acclaimed 2012 biography, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown, is widely considered the most in-depth...

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  4. 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.

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    • Biography, Drama, Music
    • Tate Taylor
    • 2014-08-01
  5. Jul 30, 2014 · Now, nearly eight years after Brown’s death, at 73 on Christmas Day 2006, comes Get On Up. It may be the finest, most complex of the bunch — the story of a difficult man who created the funk ...

    • Richard Corliss
  6. Aug 1, 2014 · The opening scene of the James Brown biopicGet On Up” plays like a bad Dave Chappelle skit. Please beg my indulgence as I describe it. A woman is shown sitting on the toilet, her biological activities intercut with a drugged-out James Brown driving to an office building he owns.

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  8. Rated 4/5 Stars • 07/06/24. "Get On Up" is a thunderous yet conventional biopic. The film would jump randomly through different decades in a certainly off order, the direction wasn't that...

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    • Biography, Drama
    • PG-13