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.
Direction
Bryan Barber's music-video aesthetic cranked to eleven
Costume
Rooster's green suit deserves its own billing
Score
OutKast's genre-hopping soundtrack is the real star
Director
Bryan Barber
André 3000
Percival
Big Boi
Rooster
Paula Patton
Angel
Terrence Howard
Trumpy
Faizon Love
Ace
Malinda Williams
Zora
Cicely Tyson
Mother Hopkins
Macy Gray
Taffy
Ben Vereen
Percy Senior
Bruce Bruce
Nathan
Paula Jai Parker
Rose
Bobb'e J. Thompson
Young Rooster
Patti LaBelle
The Real Angel Davenport
Ving Rhames
Spats
Jackie Long
Monk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bryan Barber directed iconic OutKast videos including 'Hey Ya!' and 'Ms. Jackson' before this, his only feature film.
The film flopped spectacularly ($5M domestic on a $15M budget), effectively killing the mid-2000s 'hip-hop musical' boom before it started.
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