MISS SHARON JONES! (2015)
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Title: MISS SHARON JONES! (2015)
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Original title: Miss Sharon Jones! Director: Barbara Kopple |
TRAILER of the film: Miss Sharon Jones! Artists: Sharon Jones, Starr Adkins, Binky Griptite |
Synopsis:
Two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA) shines a powerful, inspiring and entertaining spotlight on the legendary R&B queen Sharon Jones, whose wonder is a force to behold both on and off stage. Always told she was never good enough (“you’re too black, too short, too old”), Sharon finally broke through as a renowned soul singer, being hailed as a modern-day female James Brown. Now as she prepares for her most important tour, Sharon comes face to face with the most difficult adversity of her life: a diagnosis with cancer. Follow this tour de force over the course of an eventful year as she struggles to hold her band The Dap Kings together while battling her diagnosis with an unstoppable determination to come out triumphantly as a true soul survivor.
In Theatres July 29th, 2016 (US)
Released: 29/07/2016 (Usa)