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Hustle & Flow
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
2005 · Directed by Craig Brewer · 116 min · Crime · Drama · Music · 8 frames
Tagline
Everybody gotta have a dream.
Crew
- Written by: Craig Brewer
- Cinematography: Amy Vincent
- Edited by: Billy Fox
- Music: Scott Bomar
- Production design: Keith Brian Burns
- Produced by: John Singleton, Stephanie Allain
Cast
- Terrence Howard as Djay
- Anthony Anderson as Key
- Taryn Manning as Nola
- Taraji P. Henson as Shug
- DJ Qualls as Shelby
- Ludacris as Skinny Black
- Paula Jai Parker as Lexus
- Elise Neal as Yevette
- Isaac Hayes as Arnel
- Juicy J as Tigga
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: New Deal Productions, Crunk Pictures, Homegrown Pictures
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Box office: $23,563,727
- Themes: drug dealer, career, baby, rap music, hip-hop, midlife crisis, rapper, biting, blunt, desperate
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