You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of the piano lesson.

That piano is the story of our whole family.

Now, Granddaddy, he called all of this.

But everything he made, Mr. Sutter owned, because he owned him.

Boy Charles talked about that piano all the time.

And long as Sutter had it, he had us.

And that's why Bernice ain't gonna sell that piano,

because her daddy died over it.

But I'm supposed to build off what they left me.

You ain't touched that piano the whole time it's been here.

All right, everybody, you were just listening to the trailer for the piano lesson, and the story is as follows.

The Charles family grapples with family legacy and difficult decisions as they

determine the fate of their heirloom piano, exploring deeper themes along the way. The film is

starring. John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Daniel Deadweiler,

and Corey Hawkins. It is written and directed by Malcolm Washington,

co-written by Virgil Williams, and here to join me today for this podcast review. I have

Sarah Clements. Hello, hello. Josh Parham. Hello, hello. And Dan Baer. Hello, everybody.

So another August Wilson adaptation for the, I was going to say big screen, but this is a

Netflix film.

Based on the 1987 play by August Wilson, the piano lesson very recently had a Broadway

adaptation that starred Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington as well. It got

pretty great reviews. And now we're seeing some of them and then these cast members come along

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