{blackbabes} Lifetime's Whitney Houston movie trailer promises a heartbreaking story: Watch

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Check out the official trailer for "Whitney," Lifetime's Whitney Houston biopic starring Yaya DaCosta ("Lee Daniels' The Butler," "Ugly Betty") in the title role and Arlen Escarpeta ("American Dreams," "We Are Marshall") as Houston's husband Bobby Brown.

The TV movie marks Oscar-winning actress Angela Bassett's directorial debut. From the looks of the trailer, promises magnificent music and tragic heartbreak, as it chronicles the troubled diva's rise to fame and subsequent downward spiral into drugs and dysfunction with Brown, all of which culminated in the singer's untimely passing in 2012 at the age of 48.

"Whitney" premieres Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Lifetime.

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