Elvis

When the young Elvis Presley (Austin Butler) is discovered by the shady Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), it is the start of a success story. Elvis is made the attraction of a show that tours the USA by the music manager and soon advances to superstardom. The idiosyncratic movements of Elvis, who had been socialised by blues and gospel music in areas inhabited mainly by black people, sent his female fans in particular into ecstasy, but also angered the guardians of public morals. While Elvis falls in love with Priscilla (Olivia DeJonge) and thus another significant and formative person enters his life, the relationship with his promoter becomes more and more cracked over the course of 20 years. When violence against blacks increases and Martin Luther King is assassinated in Elvis' home town of Memphis, of all places, the superstar wants to take a clear stand. But to do so, he has to stand up to the Colonel.

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