Advantages: Powerful performance by Howard, Excellent writing/directing debut for Brewer Disadvantages: Not for people who hate rap or hip hop
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TITLE: Hustle & Flow
RATING: ****½ CAST: Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning, Taraji P. Henson, Ludacris, Elise Neal, DJ Qualls, Isaac Hayes, Paula Jai Parker, Jordon Houston (nee Juicy J), William Engram, Bobby Sandimanie, Haystak, Claude Phillips, Josey Scott, Al Kapone, Michael Hooks. DIRECTOR: Craig Brewer
SCREENWRITER: Craig Brewer
STUDIO: Paramount Classics ... ...mid-2005 when the indie hit HUSTLE & FLOW came out, it looked like another one of those “rags to rap riches” story and I was not interested at all; ironically, it came out at the same time that another film was released that had a similar storyline, and that was 50 Cent’s adaptation of his best-selling album, GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’. I don’t like 50 Cent’s music (if you really want to call it that), though I was forced to go see it as a deal to some ...
eve6kicksass 18.07.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Hustle And Flow (DVD)
Advantages: Real, Gritty, Emotional. Disadvantages: Would have loved to have seen more on the special features
...to do, but having to hustle in order to achieve that. THE STORY.
The film opens with DJay (Terrance Howard) delivering a philosophical speech about mankind. He is however talking to Nola (Taryn manning) who is a caucasian prostitute that is pimped by DJay. He works as a pimp because this is all he knows, yet he does not particularly like it, his true passion lies with music. When he is offered an old keyboard in exchange for drugs, and meets an ... ...FILM: THEMES AND THEORY
Hustle and Flow is set in Memphis Tennessee, and it is important to note that it is a place alive with poverty in America. It is a multi-racial city and also the place where rap was born. Memphis is well known for inhabiting young talented music artists that have had to build make shift recording studios in their own homes and record low budget beats on tape, not CD but tape because that is all they can afford. This film ...
monumental 05.05.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Hustle And Flow (DVD)
Producer John Singleton and award-winning director Craig Brewer bring to life the ... more
unforgettable tale of DJay (Terrence Howard), a pimp whose gritty hustle selling sexy Nola (Taryn Manning) and supporting pregnant Shug (Taraji Henson) leaves him wonderi...
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
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