Idlewild R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 5, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | André Benjamin, Macy Gray & Antwan A. Patton | |
Performer: | Terrence Howard, Patti LaBelle, Ving Rhames, Faizon Love, Cicely Tyson, Ben Vereen, Paula Jai Parker & Paula Patton | |
Directed by | Bryan Barber | |
Screenwriting by | Bryan Barber | |
Produced by | William Green & Robin O'Hara | |
Director of Photography: | Pascal Rabaud | |
Executive Production by | Scott Macauley |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 7/10 --
Benjamin and Patton have devised a basic Prohibition era gangster story as a background for their newest musical experiment melding modern hip-hop with the jazz and blues of the '30s, all put together with a great deal of visual cleverness and flair.
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ComingSoon.net
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]his is a luscious ragtime musical....Surprisingly polished performances from the two leads grab the attention...
Total Film
You don't have to have a stylistic device in every single shot.
Ebert & Roeper
Rating: 3/5 --
It's a tame, well-rehearsed story that hangs together to ensure Idlewild plays like one incongruous pop promo after another.
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The List
Rating: 2.5/4 --
By jumbling genres, fashions, music and locales, and riddling bullets through much of it, Idlewild ends up feeling disjointed and disquieting.
USA Today
3 stars out of 4 -- OutKast's music is impressively varied and dynamic throughout.
Uncut
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Though not as good as I hoped it would be, it's still an above par musical effort in the end...
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Cinema Crazed
Product Description:
André Benjamin and Antoine A. Patton--aka Andre 3000 and Big Boi of the hip-hop duo Outkast--star in this uproarious period piece, a comedy-drama-musical-action film set in Prohibition-era Virginia. Patton plays Rooster, the lead singer at a raucous, high-class all-black club called Church. Benjamin plays Percival, his best friend, who is the piano player at the club and the shy son of a funeral parlor owner (played by Ben Vereen). Terence Howard (HUSTLE AND FLOW) provides the menace as Trumpy, a vicious underling of Rooster's bootlegger father (Ving Rhames). Meanwhile, a beautiful singer (Paula Patton) comes to town and Percival finds himself falling in love--much to his terror, as he's afraid to leave the small community of Idlewild for the big city: Chicago, her next stop. As Rooster prepares for a showdown with Trumpy, Percival faces his fears, the band heats up, and the guns and songs come out for a big final night at the Church.
This is clearly a labor of love for writer/director Brian Barber and the Outkast crew: a color-saturated adrenalin rush of witty dialogue, loving attention to period detail, boisterous and athletic dancing, and lots of eye-popping digital animation (such as Rooster's talking/singing whiskey flask). Appearing in a bevy of diamond-studded cameos and bit parts are Cicely Tyson, Macy Gray, Cedric the Entertainer, Patti LaBelle, Jackie Long, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams, and child rapper Bobb'e J. Thompson, who is hilarious--and demonstrates some very fancy footwork--as the young Rooster.
This is clearly a labor of love for writer/director Brian Barber and the Outkast crew: a color-saturated adrenalin rush of witty dialogue, loving attention to period detail, boisterous and athletic dancing, and lots of eye-popping digital animation (such as Rooster's talking/singing whiskey flask). Appearing in a bevy of diamond-studded cameos and bit parts are Cicely Tyson, Macy Gray, Cedric the Entertainer, Patti LaBelle, Jackie Long, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams, and child rapper Bobb'e J. Thompson, who is hilarious--and demonstrates some very fancy footwork--as the young Rooster.