Ali

Sports

Will Smith	Cassius Clay / Cassius X / Muhammad Ali
Jamie Foxx	Drew Brown
Nona Gaye	Belinda Ali
Giancarlo Esposito	Cassius Clay, Sr.
Ron Silver	Angelo Dundee
Jon Voight	Howard Cosell
Mykelti Williamson	Don King
Jeffrey Wright	Howard Bingham
LeVar Burton	Martin Luther King, Jr.
David Cubitt	Robert Lipsyte
Mario Van Peebles	Malcolm X
Jada Pinkett Smith	Sonji
Michael Michele	Veronica Porche

Director	Michael Mann
Producer	A. Kitman Ho; James Lassiter; Paul Ardaji; Howard Bingham
Writer	Michael Mann; Eric Roth; Gregory Allen Howard; Stephen J. Rivele
Cinematography	Emmanuel Lubezki
Musician	Pieter Bourke

Cassius Clay (Will Smith) rises to national celebrity after winning the Heavyweight Championship in 1964. Over the next ten years, Clay stays in the public spotlight for both his sporting and personal life. He changes his name to Cassius X and then to Muhammad Ali based on his involvement with Malcolm X (Mario Van Peebles). He refuses to serve in Vietnam when drafted and is banned from fighting in the US as a result. Ali’s marriages to Sonji (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Belinda Ali (Nona Gaye) suffer the stress of continual public controversy. Ali seeks matches outside the US, including the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” in Tanzania. Throughout his career, Ali is supported by friend Drew “Bundini” Brown (Jamie Foxx) and sportscaster Howard Cosell (Jon Voight).