ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI.

• Author: Slade, Stephanie
• Position: MOVIE

If you could be a fly on the wall for a private conversation between four historic figures, who would you choose--and what do you imagine they would talk about? Amazon Studios' One Night in Miami offers a surprisingly riveting answer to that hypothetical.

On February 25, 1964, Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) is crowned heavyweight champion of the world. Afterward, he gathers with Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) for what is supposed to be a celebration but quickly becomes a meeting of minds, bearing of hearts, and airing of grievances.

Virtually all of the drama comes from the fictionalized...