Idlewild is an American musical film, released August 25, 2006, written and directed by Bryan Barber. The film stars André 3000 and Big Boi of the hip hop duo OutKast, and Idlewild features musical numbers written, produced, and chiefly performed by OutKast. Idlewild contrasts OutKast's hip-hop/funk/soul sound against a story about a juke joint in the fictional Depression-era town of Idlewild, Georgia in 1935. Distributed by Universal Pictures, the film is a Universal and HBO Films production with Mosaic Media Group and Forensic Films. The cast includes Terrence Howard, Paula Jai Parker,... Paula Patton, Cicely Tyson, Ben Vereen, Patti LaBelle, Ving Rhames, Macy Gray, Faizon Love, Bruce Bruce, Malinda Williams, Jackie Long and Bill Nunn. Percival and Rooster have been good friends since childhood. However, as they grow up, they each begin to live separate lives. Percival works at his father Percy Senior's morgue preparing dead bodies during the day, and works at a local club called Church at night playing the piano.
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| Release date: | August 25, 2006 |
| Directed by: | Bryan Barber |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 121 Minutes |
| Producer: | Charles Roven, Robert Guralnick |
| Editor: | Anne Goursaud |
| Music by: | John Debney |
| Cinematography: | Pascal Rabaud |
| Screenplay by: | Bryan Barber |
| Estimated budget: | $10,000,000 |
| Genre: | Musical |