The Piano Lesson

(2024)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 103 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2024

Runtime: 127 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Malcolm Washington

Cast: Джон Дэвид Вашингтон, Даниэль Дедуайлер, Сэмюэл Л. Джексон, Рэй Фишер, Майкл Поттс, Кори Хокинс, Gail Bean, Jerrika Hinton, Стефан Джеймс, Skylar Aleece Smith

Plot

A brother and sister's battle over a prized heirloom piano unleashes haunting truths about how the past is perceived — and who defines a family legacy.

Follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor. The play focuses on the arguments between a brother and a sister who have different ideas on what to do with the piano. The brother, Boy Willie, is a sharecropper who wants to sell the piano to buy the land (Sutter's land) where his ancestors toiled as slaves. The sister, Berniece, remains emphatic about keeping the piano, which shows the carved faces of their great-grandfather's wife and son during the days of their enslavement.