As they celebrate the victory by Clay-soon to be Muhammad Ali-the four luminaries joke, bond, and debate how best to deal with the racism plaguing their country. Adapted from a play by Kemp Powers, the film allows audiences in on the conversation that happened between Cassius Clay (Goree), Malcolm X (Ben-Adir), Jim Brown (Hodge), and Sam Cooke (Odom Jr.) the night in 1964 after Clay beat Sonny Liston. King does not appear in One Night in Miami. herself, but she coaxes out marvelous work from her cast as she documents a fictional account of one of the most legendary conversations in history.
Regina King, a woman responsible for putting incredible performances onto big and small screens, makes her directorial debut with a movie that features some of the best acting of 2020.
