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2006 Certificate 15
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A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father. Read more

Starring Big Boi, Andre 3000, Macy Gray, Terrence Howard
Director Bryan Barber
Genres Music/Musical

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Idlewild

A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.

Starring Big Boi, Andre 3000, Macy Gray, Terrence Howard, Patti Labelle, Ving Rhames, Faizon Love, Cicely Tyson, Ben Vereen, Paula Jai Parker
Director Bryan Barber
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 1 min
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Music/Musical
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 26 Feb 2007
Production year: 2006
Format DVD

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  • What should have been a self-deprecatory checklist of Deep South gin joint clichés, this Prohibition-era musical... read more on Time Out

    • David Jenkins, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    What a film

    I loved this film it was true to Outkast standard and was different.

    I don't mean different weird but not your average American film (gangster, drugs etc).

    Outkast as actotrs fantastic, the music fabulous, watch this film and be amazed I kept it for two weeks.

    It's not your average musical!!

      • A customer from London, united kingdom
      • Posted 10 Apr 2007 08:31

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Customer Review

    It started off well and I was impressed with the costumes and the musical touch to this film. It was easy to see from early on that this film was different, and I was waiting for it to blossom into action. However, I found it quite boring and really struggled to watch it to the end because there was nothing happening to intrigue me. Great effort with the set and period theme but definately one that I wish I'd given a miss.

      • A customer from UK
      • Posted 23 Jun 2008 15:22

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    Idlewild

    Déjà Vu

    • 11 Dec 2006

    I know, I know, you've seen it all before. And this being a Jerry Bruckheimer slam-bang action thriller, you have too. There will be the kind of cast that immediately inspires confidence (Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel, Bruce Greenwood). There will be a demolition derby car chase through the streets. There will be big explosions at regular intervals, high tech gimmickry, so on and so forth. All these staples are present and correct all right, but artfully filtered here through a... Read more

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