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  • 2008
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 49 m

Summary In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950's Chicago, Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry. (Sony Pictures)

Directed By: Darnell Martin

Written By: Darnell Martin

  • 2008
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 49 m

Cadillac Records

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 25 User Ratings
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Summary In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950's Chicago, Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry. (Sony Pictures)

Directed By: Darnell Martin

Written By: Darnell Martin

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Generally Favorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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90
This movie is crowded and sprawling, and if it rambles sometimes, that's just fine. Like those big, boxy Caddies (and like Howlin’ Wolf, if he did say so himself), it's built for comfort, not for speed. It hums, it purrs and it roars.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
80
One of the strengths of Cadillac Records, written and directed by Darnell Martin, is that it's a movie about music by someone who genuinely seems to enjoy listening to music.
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75
The film's most memorable performance is by Eamonn Walker, who is scarily good as the singer known as Howlin' Wolf.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
70
Cadillac Records may be a mess dramatically, but it's a wonderful mess, and not just because of the great music. The people who made it must have harbored the notion, almost subversive in a season of so many depressing films, that going out to the movies should be fun.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
63
There are plenty of small pleasures to be found throughout Darnell Martin's feature, but a compelling storyline featuring three-dimensional characters is not among them.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
60
Most of the details are right-on in Cadillac Records, though the director's efforts to sell it sometimes steers the film into mawkish or hokey territory.
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10
With everything so wrong, how can there be anything right about Cadillac Records?
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Generally Favorable Based on 25 User Ratings
7.1
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15 Ratings
28% Mixed
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12% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 25 User Ratings
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28% Mixed
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12% Negative
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Production Company LightWave Entertainment, Parkwood Pictures, Sony Music Film
Release Date Dec 5, 2008
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline If you take the ride, you must pay the price.
Website http://bd-dvd.sonypictures.jp/cadillac-record/
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Black Reel Awards
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Win & 8 Nominations

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