What’s Love Got to Do with It

What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Director: Brian Gibson
Tagline: « Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? »
Actors:
Young Anna Mae
Choir Mistress
Choir Member
Choir Member
Choir Member
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music
Rating:  vote average (25’794 votes)
Quotes: « Tina Turner: [Walks up to the hotel counter bruised and bloodied] I need to speak with your manager. » « Hotel Clerk: Yes ma'am, right away. George! » « Tina Turner: [George turns around] I'm… I'm Tina Turner. My husband and I just had a fight. I'm suppose to open at the Academy tonight. I have 36 cents and a Mobil card, but if you would give me a room, I SWEAR I will pay you back. » [She starts removing her jewelry] « George (the Ramada Inn Manager): No, no, no, that won't be necessary. Ms. Turner, I'd… I'd be honored, really. We'll take care of you. » « Tina Turner: Thank you. » « George (the Ramada Inn Manager): Nick, let's give Ms. Turner a room. » « Ike Turner, Sr.: $750,000 she's gonna cost me. What I got left, I got… I got… I got… I got some clothes, I got some jewelry. Uh, the rest I got tied up in investments. I ain't got nothing else. » [Ike puts on his sunglasses in the courtroom] « Judge: Please instruct your client to remove his sunglasses. This is a courtroom. » « Ike Turner, Sr.: Well, hold on, you don't got to instruct me to do nothing. » [Ike removes his sunglasses] « Anna's Lawyer: Your Honor, in order to expedite this matter, my client would like to make an oral motion amending her petition for divorce, revoking any financial claims. » « Judge: I want you to be very sure about this. It means you're going to walk out of here with absolutely nothing. » « Tina Turner: Except my name. I'll give up all that other stuff, but only if I get to keep my name. I've worked too hard for it, your Honor. » « Ike Turner, Sr.: The name is mine! The name got my daddy's blood on it! If she wanna go, she can go wherever she wanna go, but the name belongs to me! » « Judge: Mr. Turner! » « Ike Turner, Sr.: No, no, no… look here now! » [Bailiff puts his hand on Ike's shoulder] « Ike Turner, Sr.: Hey, hey, hey… get your hand off me, man! » « Judge: Mr. Turner… » « Ike Turner, Sr.: Now look, she want to go, she can go! That's fine! She can go, but the name stays home! » [Judge bangs the gavel] « Ike Turner, Sr.: The name stays home! » « Judge: As Mrs. Turner has decided to drop all claims, I hereby grant her divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. Mr. Turner will retain all publishing rights, royalties, all real property, clothing, jewelry, and all other assets. Mrs. Turner will retain the use of her stage name. » [Judge bangs the gavel] « Ike Turner, Sr.: Hey, Anna Mae, where you goin'? I need to get some sleep! » « Tina Turner: Go straight to hell, Ike! »
Runtime:118 minutes
Plots: The story of singer Tina Turner’s rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner. Anna Mae Bullock always had a special voice. Soon after arriving in St. Louis to live with the mother who had walked out when she was small, she soon attracts the attention of pop group leader Ike Turner. She becomes his band’s singer, his wife, and mother to his children – not all hers. In love with him and determined not to leave in the way her mother had, she finds herself the target of increasing violence from him who can’t see who is making his band such a success. Chronicles the career of rock singer Tina Turner from the time she met musician-songwriter Ike Turner until the launch of her solo career in the early 1980s. Contains faithful reenactments of stage performances by Ike and Tina Turner – whose turbulent relationship eventually forces Tina to leave and face her fear, pay the price and find the courage to believe in herself. Based on the autobiography of Tina Turner, ”I, Tina”.

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