|
a sound engineer who has always wanted to make it in the music business, spurs DJay: if he’s ever going to make his mark, it has to happen now. He begins to write down his freestyle raps – his
flow – and the two team up with Shelby (DJ Qualls), a church musician with a beat machine, to lay down bass-thumping crunk tracks. DJay’s metamorphosis affects his entire house, as the women in his life – Shug (Taraji P. Henson)
and Nola (Taryn Manning) – find ways to contribute to the creative process. With the impending visit to Memphis of hometown platinum-selling rapper Skinny Black (Ludacris), DJay has to make one last hustle if he’s ever going to
flow.
Winner of the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, “Hustle & Flow” is produced by John Singleton (“Boyz N the Hood,” “2 Fast 2 Furious,”
“Four Brothers”) and Stephanie Allain (“Biker Boyz,” “Something New”) and written and directed by newcomer Craig Brewer. Paramount Classics, MTV Films, and New Deal Entertainment present a Crunk Pictures/Homegrown
Pictures production, a Craig Brewer film, “Hustle & Flow.”
|
