What's Love Got to Do with It

Raised in Nutbush, Tennessee in the early 1950s, Anna Mae Bullock returns home from church one day to see her mother Zelma leaving and taking her elder sister Alline with her. She is distraught over this and is consoled by her grandmother Georgeanna. Six years later, a teenage Anna Mae relocates to St. Louis, where she reunites with her mother and Alline. While in St. Louis, Alline takes Anna to a nightclub at East St. Louis, where she sees bandleader Ike Turner perform with his band Kings of Rhythm. After nights of seeing women in the crowd coming onstage to sing with Ike, Anna finally gets her chance to perform for Ike and impresses him so much that he offers to mentor her and produce her music.