MILES AHEAD, inspired by events in his life, is a wildly entertaining,
impressionistic, no-holds barred portrait of one of 20th century music’s
creative geniuses, Miles Davis, featuring a career defining performance
by Oscar® nominee Don Cheadle in the title role. Working from a script
he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Cheadle makes his bravura directorial
debut.
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of
modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis (Cheadle) virtually disappears from
public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and
holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating
hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and pain medications,
his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past.
