Miles Ahead (2016) - Movie

Miles Ahead (2016)
In the 1970s, down-and-out jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) tries to recover his new session tape from music producers.
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Release Date: April 1st, 2016

DVD Release Date: July 19th, 2016

R |1 hr 36 min

Plot Summary

In the 1970s, down-and-out jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) tries to recover his new session tape from music producers.

Cast: Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Keith Stanfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Austin Lyon, Morgan Wolk, Christina Marie Karis

Director: Don Cheadle

Genres: Music , Historical drama , Biography , Drama

Production Co: Miles Davis Properties, Bifrost Pictures, Sobini Films, IM Global, Crescendo, Naked City Films

Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics

Keywords: Amusing , Cheeky , Hilarious , Gritty , Quest , 1970s , New York City , Melodramatic , Fascinating , Girlfriend ,

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Graham FullerScreen International
First-time feature director Don Cheadle has made an invigoratingly bold attempt to structure his film about Miles Davis as an extended visual and narrative equivalent of modal jazz. show more
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David RooneyThe Hollywood Reporter
The abstraction of the approach perhaps limits the scope of Miles Ahead as an acting showcase, though in Cheadle's fully inhabited characterization, he nails the subject's soft, nicotine-scratched rasp and his eccentric irritability and paranoia with discerning understatement. show more
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Steven ReaPhiladelphia Inquirer
Miles Ahead is more a provocative character sketch than a meaty portrait, but it's a film that should be applauded for its daring, and for Cheadle's shape-shifting, soul-baring work. show more