Idlewild

Aug 25, 2006

2h 1m

★ 5.7

Overview

A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands of gangsters who want to take it over.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Music

Production Companies

HBO Films

Forensic Films

Atlas Entertainment

Universal Pictures

Idlewild Trailers

Cast

Percival

André 3000

Rooster

Big Boi

Angel

Paula Patton

Trumpy

Terrence Howard

Ace

Faizon Love

Zora

Malinda Williams

Mother Hopkins

Cicely Tyson

Taffy

Macy Gray

Percy Senior

Ben Vereen

Nathan

Bruce Bruce

Rose

Paula Jai Parker

Young Rooster

Bobb'e J. Thompson

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4.1

Blueprint

Dec 8, 2003

The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also herself, beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom, in this way, she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being. In fact a blueprint: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment on nothing is as it was before...

4.1

A Legal Marriage

Apr 29, 1985

At the beginning of the 1941 war, a young talented artist Igor and his theater were evacuated to Tashkent. Here he meets music teacher Olga, who is seriously ill with malaria. Igor understands that only treatment in the capital will save the girl. But they are allowed into Moscow only on special passes. And then Igor almost by force drags Olga to the registry office. Feeling responsible for the girl, Igor begins to patronize her more and more...

6.5

Ghost Town

Sep 19, 2008

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!

7.2

White Christmas

Oct 14, 1954

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

6.7

Reflections

Feb 1, 1987

Mihajlo, an introvert piano teacher starts romance with a pretty careerist who teaches modeling at the university in Belgrade where they both work. His feelings are awakened after a long period, but this relationship makes him see the flashbacks, as well as yet unseen images that remind him of his troubled childhood - as if he experienced this already. When their university wins a contest to hold public TV performance, Mihailo fails to play the piano on the decisive night and she dumps him. The boiling point is about to come.

7.3

The Piano Teacher

Sep 5, 2001

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

6.5

The Cotton Club

Dec 14, 1984

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

7.4

Tokyo Sonata

Sep 27, 2008

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

5.7

Saving Silverman

Feb 9, 2001

A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.

6.5

Le Pion

Oct 25, 1978

Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a book.

6.5

The 24th Day

May 6, 2004

Tom and Dan's one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.

6.1

Powder Blue

May 8, 2009

On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.

6.1

There's No Business Like Show Business

Dec 16, 1954

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

6.4

For Me and My Gal

Oct 21, 1942

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

6.4

Crisis

Feb 25, 1946

A poor Swedish piano teacher and her foster daughter’s lives are upended when the child’s biological mother arrives in their small town to reclaim her.

7.0

Easter Parade

Jul 8, 1948

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.

6.9

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Mar 16, 2005

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.