A family clash over an heirloom piano explodes. The battle between brother (John David Washington) and sister (Danielle Deadwyler)—one hopes to sell it, the other refuses to give it up—unleashes haunting truths about how the past is perceived and who defines a family legacy.
Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Erykah Badu, Skylar Aleece Smith, Jerrika Hinton, Gail Bean, Danielle Deadwyler, and Corey Hawkins star in Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut based on the Pulitzer-prize winning August Wilson play.
Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Erykah Badu, Skylar Aleece Smith, Jerrika Hinton, Gail Bean, Danielle Deadwyler, and Corey Hawkins star in Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut based on the Pulitzer-prize winning August Wilson play.
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00:00That piano is the story of our whole family.
00:21Now, granddaddy, he called all of this.
00:26But everything he made, Mr. Sutter owned because he owned him.
00:33Fort Charles talked about that piano all the time.
00:38And long as Sutter had it, he had us.
00:43And that's why Bernice ain't gonna sell that piano.
00:49Because her daddy died over it.
00:54But I'm supposed to build on what they left me.
00:59You ain't touched that piano the whole time it's been here.
01:06When mama played it, I used to take the pictures come alive.
01:12And walk through the house.
01:17I don't play on that piano because I don't want to wake them spirits.
01:23You feel that?
01:27That's your family.
01:32That's your blood.
01:46Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.