This Prohibition-era musical, tailored to the personas of OutKast's Andre Benjamin and Antwan Patton and directed by their longtime music-video collaborator Bryan Barber, appears to have been conceived as a hip-hop MOULIN ROUGE (2001) — a bold, postmodern reimagining of genre conventions that mixes period costumes and settings (by way of Hollywood at its most glamorously stylized) with thoroughly modern music. Set in small-town Idlewild, Georgia, it revolves around mismatched childhood friends, quiet Percival Jenkins (Benjamin), son of a respectable undertaker, and gregarious, outgoing Rooster (Patton), the local bootlegger's boy. They're united by their passionate l...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
120 mins