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MIAMI — To successfully bring a stage play to the silver screen, the filmmaker must overcome the limitations of confined set. Denzel Washington did it with "Fences." Sidney Lumet with "The Wiz." Barry Jenkins with "Moonlight." "One Night in Miami" — a fictionalized take on the meeting of boxing legend Cassius Clay, civil rights activist Malcolm X, football star Jim Brown and soul singer Sam ...

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic On Feb. 25, 1964 — on the eve of the name change that would prove so controversial — Cassius Clay became the world boxing champion after an upset victory over Sonny Liston, during a bout at Florida’s Miami Convention Center. Following the match, Clay returned to his room at the Hampton House Hotel, where he spent a quiet evening with friends Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown — under the watchful eye of Nation of Islam security. Nobody knows what they talked about — at least, not to any great degree — but playwright Kemp Powers became obsesse...

Skip to main content Regina King makes an engrossing directorial debut with a film about the meeting of four Black legends Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post Dec. 22, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Eli Goree, center, as Cassius Clay, and Kingsley Ben-Adir, right, as Malcolm X in "One Night in Miami."Patti Perret/Amazon StudiosShow MoreShow Less 2of5Aldis Hodge, left, as Jim Brown, and Leslie Odom Jr. as Sam Cooke in "One Night in Miami."Patti Perret/Amazon StudiosShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown in "One Night in Miami."Patti Perret/Amazon StudiosShow MoreShow ...