The Piano Lesson
2024 · Movie · PG-13 · 127 min · ★ 5.8 · 79% critics
A brother and sister clash over whether to sell or keep a treasured family piano, and the argument forces everyone to confront painful history and what it means to honor a legacy. As tensions rise, unsettling experiences around the heirloom push the family to face what the past still demands of them.
Based on The Piano Lesson
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Details
- Years
- 2024
- Release date
- 2024-11-07
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 79/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 (97 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want an intense, dialogue-driven family drama about legacy and generational trauma with a touch of ghost-story unease; Not for you if you dislike slow, stagey adaptations like Fences.
Pros: powerful lead performances; rich family themes; memorable standout moments | Cons: slow, talky pacing; stagey on screen; uneven supernatural tone
Themes
- heirloom
- based on play or musical
- family
- piano
- 1930s
- former slave
Cast & crew
John David Washington
as Boy Willie
Danielle Deadwyler
as Berniece Charles
Samuel L. Jackson
as Doaker Charles
Ray Fisher
as Lymon
Michael Potts
as Wining Boy
Corey Hawkins
as Avery
Gail Bean
as Dolly
Jerrika Hinton
as Grace
Stephan James
as Boy Charles
- SS
Skylar Aleece Smith
as Maretha
Directed by Malcolm Washington