Who Do You Love

About The Film

The rise and fall of music industry pioneer Leonard Chess gets an inspired big-screen treatment in WHO DO YOU LOVE, a toe-tapping biopic rich with sentimental tunes and settings of the 1950s and ‘60s. A Jewish nightclub owner from Poland, Leonard (Alessandro Nivola) rose from obscurity after founding the Chicago-based label Chess Records with his brother Phil. Without playing a note, the pair changed the face of modern music by popularizing such extraordinary blues and rock talents as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. As the music around them transformed, so too did their strained family lives. Replete with punchy dialogue and a seductive soundtrack, WHO DO YOU LOVE explores the professional success and personal sacrifices of the Jewish entrepreneurs and rising black artists who together reinvented the entertainment world. Directed by theater titan Jerry Zaks (Six Degrees of Separation).