Idlewild

Aug 25, 2006

2h 1m

★ 5.6

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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6.5

Roma

Apr 15, 2004

Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.

6.7

Silk Stockings

Jun 28, 1957

After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).

6.2

Broadway Melody of 1938

Aug 20, 1937

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.

6.3

Tales from the Hood

May 24, 1995

A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.

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.

0.0

Tied Up

Jan 1, 2014

Call girl services turn out to be a fatal point for the male client.

5.8

Saigon

Dec 5, 1947

After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job for profiteers Maris to finance a good time for his buddy. As the plane takes off he shoves Maris' secretary Susan on board. When Mike falls for her, Larry tells her to play along for Mike's sake. She, of course, falls for Larry.

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.

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.

6.9

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.

6.8

Four Minutes

Jun 23, 2006

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.

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.

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.

6.4

The 24th Day

May 6, 2004

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

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.

0.0

This Sporting House

Sep 24, 1969

Three lovely girls are abducted and forced to work in a Manhattan brothel.

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...