Reflecting on 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
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Dealing with an illness and troubled past, an isolated man applies for the Mars Survival Mission with hopes to colonize Mars after the Earth has become over populated. Everett Curtis never fit in on Earth, and so when the chance for him to apply to become one of the first settlers on Mars arises he jumps at the chance. Befriending a local journalist and an old friends sister, he learns that Earth may be just as new to him as Mars.
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Dealing with an illness and troubled past, an isolated man applies for the Mars Survival Mission with hopes to colonize Mars after the Earth has become over populated. Everett Curtis never fit in on Earth, and so when the chance for him to apply to become one of the first settlers on Mars arises he jumps at the chance. Befriending a local journalist and an old friends sister, he learns that Earth may be just as new to him as Mars.
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Runtime:112 minutes
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