Musical bio on rock-and-roller Tina Turner, her relationship with her mentor, partner, husband, and abuser Ike Turner, and her eventual self-regeneration as a solo artist. The conventional form and tempo are much enriched by the period detail (changes in fashions are an inexhaustible source of amusement) and enlivened by the music. Angela Bassett can't match the overwhelming physicality of the real Tina, but she does very well with the emotional extremes of offstage agony and onstage ecstasy. And Laurence (formerly Larry) Fishburne is appallingly credible as the unregenerate Ike. Directed by Brian Gibson. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd
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