Idlewild

United States

2006

121 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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EXEC William Green, Scott Macaulay, Robin O'Hara

PROD André Benjamin, Big Boi, Robert Guralnick, Charles Roven

CAST André Benjamin, Big Boi, Paula Patton, Ving Rhames, Terrence Howard, Cicely Tyson, Ben Vereen, Macy Gray, Patti LaBelle, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams, Paula Jai Parker, Bill Nunn, Sleepy Brown

Percival, an introverted piano player, and Rooster, the star performer and manager of a Southern speakeasy — who’s as outgoing as Percival is shy — struggle to keep their dream of making it big alive against long odds. André Benjamin and Antwan Patton (aka Big Boi) of the hip-hop group OutKast star in this musical extravaganza that delivers roadhouse boogie straight up in a smoky, Prohibition-era atmosphere.

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Adam Eisentrout

22Jan12

If only Outkast had written the film as well as the soundtrack to it, maybe it would have succeeded. Alas, it is a vanity project and has too few of great moments to make it worthwhile seeing as a whole.