The Piano Lesson (2024)
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The Piano Lesson (2024)

Genre
Drama,Music
Release Date
November 08, 2024
Studio
Netflix
Genre
Drama,Music
Release Date
November 08, 2024
MPAA Rating
PG-13
Duration
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Production Budget
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Studio
Netflix
Official Site
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Director
Malcolm Washington
Producer
Todd Black, Denzel Washington
Screenwriter
Virgil Williams, Malcolm Washington, August Wilson
Starring

Follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor. The play focuses on the arguments between a brother and a sister who have different ideas on what to do with the piano. The brother, Boy Willie, is a sharecropper who wants to sell the piano to buy the land (Sutter's land) where his ancestors toiled as slaves. The sister, Berniece, remains emphatic about keeping the piano, which shows the carved faces of their great-grandfather's wife and son during the days of their enslavement.