“What's Love Got to Do with It” quotes
(1993)Plot – Little Anna Mae Bullock gets herself thrown out of the church choir one day because she interprets the Gospel style her own way. She gets noticed by a songwriter who has a band, Ike Turner. He recognizes her talent and puts her on tour with the name of Tina. The two fall in love, get married and start to make money and records. Ike is not only a demanding manager who is always fighting to impose his types of songs, he is also a violent man who alternates gifts and caresses with beatings and humiliation. In the end Tina rebels and asks for a divorce; she is granted her divorce and leaves her husband both money and investments as long as she can keep her show name.
All actors – Rae'Ven Kelly, Virginia Capers, Dororthy Thorton, Demetrice Cheathon, Nita Woods Allen, Helen Marie Lovelace, Natalie Wilson, Seymour Daniel Jr., David McKinney, Jayd Stanfield, Maurice O'Neal, Frank Rasberry
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“Eat the cake, Anna Mae.”
“Now, you listen to me. I made you. You were nothing before you met me, and you ain't gonna be nothing without me.”
“I'll give up all that other stuff, but only if I get to keep my name. I worked too hard for it, your honor.”
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