VO Talent Jeffrey Wright in 'Cadillac Records'

NPR.org, December 5, 2008 An exuberant fictionalization of the Chess Records story, Cadillac Records plays a gritty counterpoint to Dreamgirls. Both movies are fairy tales, but Cadillac Records is far truer to one essential thing: the music.
After a clunky opening montage, writer-director Darnell Martin introduces her narrator, blues songwriter Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer), and two central characters: Chicago entrepreneur Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) and Mississippi sharecropper Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright).

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