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What's Love Got To Do With It?

What's Love Got To Do With It? (1993)

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100

Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 0

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What's Love Got to Do With It? is the filmed biography of R&B/pop singer Tina Turner (Angela Bassett), documenting her efforts to break away from her abusive husband Ike (Laurence Fishburne). After a few scenes detailing Tina's life as a young singer in Nutbush, TN, she's discovered by Ike Turner, an already established songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Ike takes Tina under his wing and makes her a star, but her fame makes him jealous and abusive, and she has to struggle to break free

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Musical & Performing Arts, Drama

Tina Turner, Kurt Loder, Kate Lanier

Jun 4, 2002

Touchstone Pictures

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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (1) | DVD (1)

A passionate personal and professional drama that hits both the high and low notes of an extraordinary career.

March 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety
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Angela Bassett shakes her tail feather with aplomb and pins down the singer's gestures with amazing precision. Top honours, however, belong to Fishburne's swaggering, savage portrayal of Ike.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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The brilliant, mercurial portrayal of Ike Turner by Laurence Fishburne is what elevates What's Love Got to Do With It beyond the realm of run-of-the-mill biography.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
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A melodrama of starry-eyed love and black-eyed beatings, exhausting road tours and the singer's even harder road to self-realization, the movie contains its emotional highs and lows in the hermetically sealed bio-pic format.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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A handsome woman with the lanky appeal of Katharine Hepburn, Bassett brays and bruises with equal effectiveness.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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It's a story of pain and courage, uncommonly honest and unflinching, and the next time I hear Tina Turner singing I will listen to the song in a whole new way.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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Powerful bio of Tina Turner with domestic violence, drugs.

March 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
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As Tina Turner, Angela Bassett gives a powerhouse well-deserved Oscar-nominated performance, but the biopic has more than its fair share of showbiz cliches.

February 13, 2008 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
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This biography of rock diva Tina Turner's turbulent life is filled with energetic musical numbers and emotionally charged moments, all anchored by two outstanding lead performances.

March 4, 2006
FulvueDrive-in.com

Could have been a made for tv movie but elevated by the work of Bassett and Fishburne.

January 8, 2005

Depressing but also terrific. Bassett stuns.

October 16, 2004

Angela Bassett, despite bearing little physical resemblance to the singer, is very convincing in her role. Her partner Laurence Fishburne is even more impressive...

September 15, 2003 Full Review
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A revealing musical melodrama that shakes as radically as soulful Tina Turner's sweet hips. Both Bassett and Fishburne deliver energetic, Oscar-worthy performances!

May 21, 2003
TheWorldJournal.com

Incendiary performances by Fishburne and Bassett.

April 16, 2003
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Audience Reviews for What's Love Got To Do With It?

A powerful and shocking portrayal of the book "I, Tina", that bring a terrific acting of Bassett and Fishburne. Fresh.
August 13, 2011
Lucas Martins

Super Reviewer

I'm always a bit weary of biopics like this as you can never tell what is true and what is favourable fiction. That said, this is certainly not sugar-coated, it's quite brutal and quite brave, Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne were both brilliant and deserve more credit for their performances.
June 7, 2010
SirPant

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    1. Ike Turner: Eat the Cake Anna-Mae.
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