Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.

Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyonce Knowles
TriStar Pictures; Directed by Darnell Martin
Rated R; 109 minutes; 2008

This period piece chronicles the rise and fall of influential R&B record label Chess Records which launched the careers of Muddy Waters, Etta James and Chuck Berry. Leonard Chess scoured the South, checking out the various blues scenes and selling records from the back of his Cadillac in this exciting and turbulent tale.