Tina
2021 · Movie · R · 118 min · ★ 7.7 · 87% critics
This documentary follows a legendary singer’s journey from a difficult upbringing to global stardom, tracing how she pushed through hardship to build a new life and career on her own terms. Through personal reflections, interviews, and archival performance footage, it highlights resilience, reinvention, and the cost of fame.
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Details
- Original title
- TINA
- Years
- 2021
- Release date
- 2021-08-20
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Critic score
- 87/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.7/10 (81 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want an emotional, up-close portrait of a music icon that balances career highs with personal hardship; Not for you if you want a track-by-track music focus like Whitney or Amy.
Pros: intimate first-person perspective; powerful stage footage; inspiring resilience | Cons: heavy focus on past trauma; limited music deep-dive; uneven pacing choices
Themes
- music record
- strong woman
- buddhism
- 1970s
- switzerland
- choir
- church choir
- interview
- icon
- buddhist
- biography
- rags to riches
- +29 more
Cast & crew
Tina Turner
as Self
- CA
Carl Arrington
as Self
Ike Turner
as Self (archive footage)
- LF
Le'June Fletcher
as Self
Oprah Winfrey
as Self
Diana Ross
as Self (archive footage)
Mary Wells
as Self (archive footage)
Angela Bassett
as Self
- JT
Jimmy Thomas
as Self
Kurt Loder
as Self
Directed by T.J. Martin, Daniel Lindsay