Universal Pictures’ James Brown biopic, "Get on Up," begins with a 6-year-old James Brown, as he’s abandoned by his mother (played by Viola Davis) and left to live with his Aunt Honey (played by Octavia Spencer), who runs a brothel. And the film ends in 1993 with a comeback concert, after Brown served prison time for aggravated assault and eluding the police in a wild car chase.
So it’s not quite a birth-to-death biopic.
Brown would eventually die on Christmas Day in 2006 – 13 years after the movie’s above ending.
Directed by Tate Taylor ("The Help"), and produced by Brian Grazer and Mick Jagger, the film…
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