Here’s the latest trailer for the upcoming One Night In Miami, one of the best movies I saw last year. The film lands on Prime Video on 15th January and I urge you to check it out as soon as it lands. Expect this to feature on many ‘best of 2021’ lists. Yes, I’m calling it extra early this year. As well as the new trailer we have four new character posters for the movie too.
On one incredible night in 1964, four icons of sports, music, and activism gathered to celebrate one of the biggest upsets in boxing history. When underdog Cassius Clay, soon to be called Muhammad Ali, (Eli Goree), defeats heavy weight champion Sonny Liston at the Miami Convention Hall, Clay memorialized the event with three of his friends: Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge).
Based on the award-winning play of the same name, and directed by Regina King, One Night In Miami… is a fictional account inspired by the historic night these four formidable figures spent together. It looks at the struggles these men faced and the vital role they each played in the civil rights movement and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. More than 40 years later, their conversations on racial injustice, religion, and personal responsibility still resonate.
I called the film a beautifully poignant, sometimes funny, extremely moving film full of wonderful performances; the film proves Regina King is as huge a talent behind the camera as in front of it.
Check out the new trailer One Night In Miami below. Catch my full review of the film from TIFF back in September here.
