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Release
Date: |
08/25/2006
- Nationwide |
Run
Time: |
1
hr. 30 min. |
MPAA
Rating: |
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| For
violence, sexuality, nudity and language. |
Genre: |
Drama |
Starring: |
Andre
Benjamin, Paula Patton, Antwan 'Big Boi' Patton, Paula Jai Parker,
Ving Rhames |
Director(s): |
Bryan
Barber |
Producer(s): |
William
Green, Scott Macaulay, Robin O'Hara |
Writer(s): |
Bryan
Barber, Doug Stern |
Studio: |
Universal
Pictures |
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| Synopsis |
| In the 1930s American
South, there was one spot that served as a haven. All were welcome
to come and find the Lord as they walked into church on Sunday mornings.
When the good and righteous built these houses of worship, however,
they did ask guests to leave a few things at the door, namely: cussing,
liquor, fast women, gambling and guns. And that was the part of the
sermon to which Rooster just didn't pay attention. Welcome to Idlewild,
Georgia. Welcome to Church. Players gather nightly at the Church,
with childhood friends--who grew up on opposite sides of the tracks--Rooster
and Percival playing two key roles at the club. Soft-spoken and reserved
mortician Percival sees playing piano at the nightclub as welcome
respite from the doldrums of working in his overbearing father's funeral
home. One night in Church, Percival meets the latest celebrity to
tour the South, the ethereal Angel. Percival falls head over heels
in love with the ingénue and is faced with a choice: stay or
leave his oppressive father behind and pursue his dreams of becoming
a song-and-dance man in the big cities of which he's only dreamed.
Church's manager, Rooster, is the son of a moonshine runner, a man
who has grown into his flashy clothes and role as a wheeler-dealer--juggling
both his suspicious wife, Zora, and a cast of characters who make
their money off the place's illegal dealings. But Rooster's problems
multiply after he witnesses a shooting that places Trumpy--one of
the mob men--into control of the influx of liquor into his juke joint.
While on the run from the mob, the good-hearted scoundrel realizes
his life of petty crime is taking him nowhere and must now fight his
way back to his family while his best friend Percy tries to escape
the hold Idlewild has on him--and start a new life performing in a
faraway city. |
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