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Marvin Gaye: Final 24 Hours
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Marvin Gaye: Final 24 Hours

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Marvin Gaye spent April 1, 1984 inside his parents' house on Gramercy Place in Los Angeles, a day that ended with his father shooting him dead after a violent argument. This entry in the Final 24 series reconstructs those last hours using dramatized reenactments, archival photographs and performance footage, and interviews with people who knew Gaye's music and his troubles, including his struggles with cocaine and depression after the collapse of his marriage and finances. The film traces how a singer who built hits like "What's Going On" and "Sexual Healing" out of his own turmoil ended up back in his childhood bedroom, dependent on the parents whose relationship had shaped so much of his pain. It lays out the timeline of the fight with his father hour by hour, from an argument over a misplaced insurance document to the gunshots the next morning. The reenactments are stylized rather than graphic, and the interviews keep returning to the same question: how a voice that famous ended up this unprotected.