Today is a special entry for Martin Luther King Day, a lesser known movie about Petey Greene, the local Washington D.C. deejay in the 60's and 70's. He was an ex-con with an ear for the people's voice and what they wanted to hear, and he's played by Don Cheadle in one of his best performances, unlike anything else he's ever done. The movie was directed by Kasi Lemmons and focuses a lot on the relationship between Petey and his manager, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor in one of the many films he'd appeared in before he finally found spotlight recognition recently in 12 Years a Slave. It's a funny, exuberant movie that looks at the civil rights era through a different perspective and examines an area that's rarely explored (it also has a great, funny performance by Taraji P. Henson as Petey's girlfriend).
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