What’s Love Got To Do With It?

What’s Love Got To Do With It is a biographical movie, based on the life of Tina Turner. The film stars Angela Bassett as Tina and Laurence Fishburne as Ike. The screenplay was adapted by Kate Lanier from the best seller I, Tina, written by Tina Turner and Kurt Loder in 1986. The story starts with an approximately six year old Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush Tennessee and ends with Tina’s first #1 hit single What’s Love Got To Do With It in 1984. Both main actors were nominated for an Oscar in the categroy 'Best Actor / Best Actress' and Angela Basset won a Golden Globe Award in 1994 and an Image Award in 1995. Parts of the movie were filmed in the original home from Ike & Tina Turner at Olympia Drive in Los Angeles.

Director: Brian Gibson
Release: June 25, 1993 (Movie) / 1994 (Video) / 1999 (DVD) / 2013 (Blu-ray)
Label: Touchstone / Buena Vista
Format: VHS / LaserDisc / DVD / Blu-ray
Time: 118 Min.

For promotion, Tina Turner was three days in Monaco together with her manager Roger Davis, her publicist Bernard Doherty, her later husband Erwin Bach, her makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin and Angela Bassett to promote the movie, the associated soundtrack album and tour. Additionally, a German promo disc from Touchstone Pictures features interviews, selected spoken scenes and music from the movie.

For the home video release in 1994, the documentary Tears to Triumph features interviews with Tina, Roger Davies and a look behind the scenes and Capitol Records released a Tina hip-hop tribute from the D.J. Shero.