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After sweeping, Tony Award-winning success on Broadway, Denzel Washington brings the late August Wilson's iconic play to the silver screen. As well as directing, Washington reprises his role as Troy Maxson, a former baseball star now working as a refuse collector who lives with his devoted wife Rose (Viola Davis) and son Cory (Jovan Adepo) in 1950s Pittsburgh. To begin with he seems content with his modest lot, but bit by bit bitterness about past disappointment bubbles uncomfortably to the surface. Also making the jump from stage to screen are Stephen Henderson as Troy's best friend Bono, Russell Hornsby as older son Lyons, and Mykelti Williamson as brain-damaged brother Gabriel.