On the night of 25 February 1964, hours after Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston, four of the most famous Black men in America shared a Miami hotel room. One Night in Miami..., Regina King's 2020 drama, imagines the conversation they had there. It streams on K-Time with Persian dub and subtitles.
What is One Night in Miami... about?
The fight is over and the young champion is giddy, but the celebration he is led to is not the party he expected. Instead of a crowd, there are three friends waiting: Malcolm X, the singer Sam Cooke and the football star Jim Brown. Each has arrived with his own preoccupations, and the mood shifts quickly from celebration to something more searching. Over the course of one long night, in a room with no cameras and no reporters, the four men argue about fame, money, faith, and what each of them owes to the struggle unfolding outside the hotel. The film keeps almost entirely to that room and that night, letting the pressure build through talk rather than incident.
About the cast
Kingsley Ben-Adir plays Malcolm X, Eli Goree is Cassius Clay, Aldis Hodge takes the role of Jim Brown and Leslie Odom Jr. appears as Sam Cooke. Lance Reddick, Christian Magby, Joaquina Kalukango and Nicolette Robinson complete the principal cast. The four leads portray men whose voices and gestures are widely recorded, and the film gives each actor long stretches of dialogue to find his own version of the man.
Context & significance
One Night in Miami... marks Regina King's work as a feature director and was released in 2020 as a United States production, running 114 minutes. It is a chamber drama in the strict sense: a handful of characters, one location for most of the running time, and a story that moves through argument. The historical frame is the segregated South of the mid-1960s, with the civil-rights movement as the backdrop against which each man measures his choices. The film was warmly received on release and was widely discussed for its ensemble and for the way it treats public figures as private people.
Watching One Night in Miami... on Ktime
K-Time offers One Night in Miami... with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles. Since so much rests on the actors' voices, the original audio with Farsi subtitles is a strong option, and the dubbed track is there too. Streaming requires a free K-Time account login, and the Farsi interface makes browsing and playback simple for Persian-speaking viewers wherever they live.