Idlewild (film)
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| Directed by | Bryan Barber |
| Produced by |
Charles Roven Robert Guralnick |
| Written by | Bryan Barber |
| Starring |
André 3000 Big Boi Paula Patton Terrence Howard Faizon Love Malinda Williams Cicely Tyson Macy Gray Ben Vereen Bruce Bruce Bill Nunn with Patti LaBelle and Ving Rhames Jackie Long |
| Music by |
OutKast John Debney |
| Cinematography | Pascal Rabaud |
| Edited by | Anne Goursaud |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10,000,000 |
| Box office | $12,643,027 |
Idlewild is an American musical film, released August 25, 2006, written and directed by Bryan Barber. The film stars André 3000 and Big Boi of the hip hop duo Outkast, and Idlewild features musical numbers written, produced, and chiefly performed by Outkast. Idlewild contrasts Outkast's hip-hop/funk/soul sound against a story based on a juke joint in the fictional Depression-era town of Idlewild, Georgia in 1935.
Distributed by Universal Pictures, the film is a Universal and HBO Films production with Mosaic Media Group and Forensic Films. The cast includes Terrence Howard, Paula Jai Parker, Paula Patton, Cicely Tyson, Ben Vereen, Patti LaBelle, Ving Rhames, Macy Gray, Faizon Love, Bruce Bruce, Malinda Williams, Jackie Long and Bill Nunn.
Percival (Andre 3000) and Rooster (Big Boi) have been good friends since childhood. However, as they grow up, they each begin to live separate lives. Percival works at his father Percy Senior's (Vereen) morgue during the day, and works at a local club called Church at night playing the piano. Rooster becomes a singer at the club and a bootlegger; he also gets married to Zora (Williams), with whom he has three children.
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