<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $30 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $33.4 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Get on Up is a 2014 American biographical drama film about the life of singer James Brown directed by Tate Taylor and written by Jez and John - Henry Butterworth . The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Chadwick Boseman as Brown, Nelsan Ellis as Bobby Byrd, Dan Aykroyd as Ben Bart, Viola Davis as Susie Brown, Craig Robinson as Maceo Parker and Octavia Spencer as Aunt Honey . The film was released on August 1, 2014 . </P> <P> Get on Up is told using a nonlinear narrative as if through James Brown's stream of consciousness, including asynchronous events and frequent breaks in the fourth wall . The film opens in 1993 with James Brown walking through a darkened hallway as an audience chants his name . He hears the voices of people he knew throughout his life . The film then cuts to 1988 in Augusta, Georgia; James learns that his private bathroom in a strip mall he owns was used without his consent . As James confronts and then forgives the trespasser, James accidentally fires a shotgun, attracting the police . </P>

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