It's been a big weekend for the Washington family. While patriarch Denzel Washington chewed the scenery on multiplex screens in "Gladiator II," the next generation of Washingtons stormed onto streaming with the film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winner "The Piano Lesson.

Based on the August Wilson play of the same name, The Piano Lesson stars John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler and Samuel L Jackson, and is centred on a family heirloom which records the history of a family through carvings etched by an enslaved ancestor.

Netflix’s “The Piano Lesson,” starring John David Washington and Danielle Deadwyler, is based on August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.