Idlewild
Crime, Drama, Music
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2006
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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.
Director:
Cast:
,
Cicely Tyson
,
Terrence Howard
,
Ben Vereen
,
André 3000
,
Paula Patton
,
Macy Gray
,
Faizon Love
,
Malinda Williams
,
Big Boi
,
Bruce Bruce
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Details
Runtime:
121 min
Release date:
25 Aug 2006
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$15,000,000
Revenue:
$12,643,027
Awards:
7 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
For a band whose music is suffused with such delicate irony, you'd expect at the very least for there to be a few laughs along the way? There are none. Nothing. Zero.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
14 Oct 2006
rotten:
You don't have to have a stylistic device in every single shot.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
28 Aug 2006
rotten:
Shakespeare has been quoted many, many times over the past 400 or so years, but never to such empty purpose as in the inchoate, self-indulgent musical drama Idlewild
– Joanne Kaufman,
Wall Street Journal,
25 Aug 2006
rotten:
By jumbling genres, fashions, music and locales, and riddling bullets through much of it, Idlewild ends up feeling disjointed and disquieting.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
25 Aug 2006
rotten:
A series of pretty-good pop videos wrapped around a confusing tale of Chitlin' Circuit striving and conniving.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
25 Aug 2006