Performing: Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Tamara Tunie, Clarke Peters, Ashton Sanders, Nafessa Williams, Tanner Beard
The journey of Whitney Houston, an ordinary Jersey girl, to the top. I Wanna Dance with Somebody is the first feature biopic of the legend—played by the critically lauded Naomi Ackie. The film chronicles her life from 1983, when Whitney sings in a New Jersey church choir and is discovered by music producer Clive Davis, through her greatest highs and lows— her role in Bodyguard, the iconic Super Bowl performance, her turbulent relationship with Bobby Brown and drug addiction—to her untimely death.