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The United States vs. Billie Holiday is a 2021 American biographical drama film about singer Billie Holiday, based on the book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari.
Feb 26, 2021 · With Andra Day, Leslie Jordan, Miss Lawrence, Natasha Lyonne. Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.
- (15K)
- Biography, Drama, Music
- Lee Daniels
- 2021-02-26
A biopic of the jazz singer Billie Holiday, who faced federal persecution and addiction. Critics and audiences praise Andra Day's performance, but the film is mixed in quality and accuracy.
- (188)
- Lee Daniels
- R
- Andra Day
Experience Andra Day as Billie Holiday in ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday,’ directed by Lee Daniels. The United States... Her voice would not be silenced.
- 3 min
- 942.4K
- Hulu
Feb 25, 2021 · The seeds of a satisfying and illuminating anti-biopic are scattered through those scenes, but “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” proves unable to rescue its heroine from its own...
- Lee Daniels
Jan 11, 2021 · Screenplay writer Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, pens this intimate tale of a fierce trailblazer whose defiance through music helped usher in...
- 3 min
- 12.3K
- eOne UK
Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she had a tumultuous affair. 284 IMDb 6.3 2 h 5 min 2021. R. Drama · Emotional · Gritty · Serious.
