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Idlewild
🎬 Movie

Idlewild

2006 · 121 min Crime Drama Music
5.6 / 10 · TMDB

A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands of gangsters who want to take it over.

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

This is quietly operating cinema. No big events, no crisis turns — just people and how they live through what happens to them.

Strengths: atmosphere, actors, accuracy of detail. Weaknesses: the pace isn't for everyone, the ending may feel unresolved.

For people who watch films for feeling, not entertainment.

Director: Bryan Barber

— MovieFinder Editorial

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Viewing atmosphere: An evening when your mind is at peace. With someone you can sit in silence with after. Wine or tea.

🎭 Cast

André 3000

André 3000

Percival

Big Boi

Big Boi

Rooster

Paula Patton

Paula Patton

Angel

Terrence Howard

Terrence Howard

Trumpy

Faizon Love

Faizon Love

Ace

Malinda Williams

Malinda Williams

Zora

Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson

Mother Hopkins

Macy Gray

Macy Gray

Taffy

Ben Vereen

Ben Vereen

Percy Senior

Bruce Bruce

Bruce Bruce

Nathan

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