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Release Date: 2005

Cast: Paula Jai Parker, Elise Neal, Josey Scott, Taraji P. Henson, Juicy J, Taryn Manning, William Engram, Ludacris, D. J. Qualls, Claude Phillips, Isaac Hayes, Terrence Howard ...MORE

Cast: Paula Jai Parker, Elise Neal, Josey Scott, Taraji P. Henson, Juicy J, Taryn Manning, William Engram, Ludacris, D. J. Qualls, Claude Phillips, Isaac Hayes, Terrence Howard, Al Kapone, Anthony Anderson ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Hip Hop Movies, Music, Indie, Crime Fiction, Musical Drama, Drama Film

Hustle & Flow is a 2005 independent drama film written and directed by Craig Brewer and produced by John Singleton. Terrence Howard stars as a Memphis hustler and pimp who faces his aspiration to become a rapper. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Three 6 Mafia's "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp." Howard was nominated for Best Actor. DJay (Terrence Howard) is a pimp and drug dealer who is dissatisfied with his life. After acquiring a keyboard and reacquainting himself with an old friend from school, Key (Anthony Anderson), who has become a sound technician, DJay... MORE

Hustle & Flow is a 2005 independent drama film written and directed by Craig Brewer and produced by John Singleton. Terrence Howard stars as a Memphis hustler and pimp who faces his aspiration to become a rapper. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Three 6 Mafia's "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp." Howard was nominated for Best Actor. DJay (Terrence Howard) is a pimp and drug dealer who is dissatisfied with his life. After acquiring a keyboard and reacquainting himself with an old friend from school, Key (Anthony Anderson), who has become a sound technician, DJay decides to try his hand at making hip hop songs. Key and his sound-mixer friend Shelby (DJ Qualls) help DJay put together several "flow" songs. While DJay quickly proves to have a real talent for lyrics, in which he expresses the frustrations of a small-time hustler struggling to survive, it is his first fixed-length song, done at the urging of these friends, which most obviously has the chance of becoming a hit and getting local radio play. The group experiences many setbacks throughout the creative process. DJay must hustle those around him in order to procure proper equipment and recording time, and LESS