![]() ![]() Released in United States January 2005 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Dramatic Competition) January 20-30, 2005.) Released in United States 2005 (Shown at London Film Festival (Film on the Square) October 19-November 3, 2005.) Project features music known as crunk, or Southern hip-hop. Ludacris will executive produce the soundtrack and release it under his label. Local Memphis rappers Three 6 Mafia and Al Capone wrote and produced tracks for the film. Paramount will partner with MTV Films for the worldwide rights to Brewer's film and will finance two other $3.5 million movies to be produced by John Singleton. Paramount Pictures and MTV Films acquired worldwide distribution rights at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival for a reported sum of $9 million. Shown at IFP/Los Angeles Film Festival June 16-26, 2005. Shown at London Film Festival (Film on the Square) October 19-November 3, 2005. Released in United States on Video January 10, 2005 Released in United States Summer July 22, 2005 Winner of the Audience Award for Best Dramatic Feature at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Winner of the 2005 Satellite Award for Best Actor - Musical or Comedy (Terrence Howard) by the International Press Academy (IPA). Winner of the 2005 award for Best Male Breakthrough Performance (Terrence Howard) and co-winner of the 2005 award for Special Recognition For Excellence In Filmmaking by the National Board of Review (NBR). With the impending visit to Memphis of hometown platinum-selling rapper Skinny Black, DJay has to make one last hustle if he's ever going to flow. DJay's metamorphosis affects his entire house, as the women in his life-Shug and Nola-find ways to contribute to the creative process. He begins to write down his freestyle raps-his flow-and the two team up with Shelby, a church musician with a beat machine, to lay down bass-thumping crunk tracks. A chance encounter with an old friend, Key, 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. Still, DJay wonders what happened to all the big dreams he had for his life. Though DJay has always had a way with words, that gift has long been misused this philosopher-hustler lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. What the Hell, Hero?: Nola calls DJay out on the fact that he manipulates her to get the things he wants – specifically, asking her to service the music shop owner so that he could get a better deal on some microphones.DJay, a streetwise Memphis hustler tries to find a voice and realize his long-buried dreams.Wham Shot: DJay finds his mixtape in the toilet, which was tossed in by a drunk Skinny Black.Vocal Tag Team: DJay and Shug on their single "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp.".The Reveal: When Key asks DJay if he really knew Skinny Black, DJay admits that he lied.Misogyny Song: "Whoop That Trick" is about disciplining your prostitute.Fame has made him forsake his Memphis roots. Lexus, who neglects her young child and is openly rude and disrespectful.Hidden Depths: The meek Shug turns out to have a strong and passionate voice when she's singing.It, along with the gold chain he wears with pride, are supposed to show that he's still small-time in comparison to the platinum-bedecked stars. Get Out!: DJay kicks Lexus out of his house when she openly disrespects him.The Cameo: Musicians Isaac Hayes, Ludacris, Juicy J and Haystak all have small roles.Call-Back: DJay tells the prison guards who give him their demo "Everybody's got to have a dream, the same dismissive observation that Skinny Black gave him, albeit presumably in a more sincere tone this time around.Bowdlerise: Key suggests that DJay tone down the lyrics in one of his songs so that it can be radio-friendly.Bittersweet Ending: DJay goes to prison for 11 months, but on the outside, his songs are starting to get airplay, suggesting that he may become a success after all. ![]() It's the first overtly romantic gesture between them. Big Damn Kiss: Shug plants a giant kiss on DJay to wish him luck before his meeting with Skinny Black.DJay angrily confronts and beats Skinny Black when the latter shows no remorse for drunkenly tossing the former's mixtape in the toilet. Asshole Victim: Although the punishment might not have fit the crime, Skinny Black qualifies.Anti-Hero: DJay is a pimp and drug dealer who'll do just about any other low-level crime to get by.It won an Academy Award for Three 6 Mafia's theme song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". It tells the story of a small-time hustler, DJay, who yearns to express himself artistically and pull himself out of the ghetto. ![]() Hustle & Flow is a 2005 drama written and directed by Craig Brewer and starring Terrence Howard.
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