Miss Sharon Jones! (2015)
The incredible true comeback story
93 min
Two-time Academy Award® winner Barbara Kopple shines a powerful, inspiring and entertaining spotlight on contemporary soul queen Sharon Jones. As she prepares to release her much-anticipated new album, Sharon comes face to-face with the greatest challenge of her life: a grave cancer diagnosis. Follow this tour de force over the course of an eventful and remarkable year as she struggles to hold her band The Dap-Kings together while battling her way back to the stage with the unstoppable determination of a true soul survivor
- Release date
- September 11, 2015
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Sharon Jones as Self
- Starr Duncan-Lowe as Self
- Binky Griptite as Self
- David Guy as Self
- Megan Holken as Self
- Austen Holman as Day Manager
- Dora Jones as Self
Crew
- James Brown · Archive footage
- Ellen DeGeneres · Archive footage
- Jimmy Fallon · Archive footage
- Barbara Kopple · Director
- David Cassidy · Producer
- Barbara Kopple · Producer
- Sharon Jones · Composer
- Gary Griffin · Cinematographer
- Tony Hardmon · Cinematographer
- Kyle Kibbe · Cinematographer
- Anne Fratto · Editor
- Jean Tsien · Editor