This film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play falters in some specifics, but is still vital viewing. transcript The director Malcolm Washington narrates a sequence from his ...
Jackson), where his sister, Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler), also lives. Berniece is the guardian of a very special piano that has been in the family for years: Boy Willie wants to sell it so he can ...
Set in the mid-1930s, the story follows a pair of siblings who come into conflict over what to do with a slavery-era heirloom: a piano that one of them hopes to sell in order to buy his own land ...
“The Piano Lesson” is really only held together by its talented cast and August Wilson’s original work. If you want to watch a film adaptation of this play — without the literal horror moments — just ...