MOVIE SEARCH

SUB SECTIONS

DVD QUICK LINKS

New Releases

BD QUICK LINKS

HD QUICK LINKS

MY ACCOUNT

SITE MATTERS

EXTRA! EXTRA!

Hustle & Flow [UMD for PSP] UMD for PSP

R (Restricted) :: Paramount :: Released: 2006-01-10

Grab Poster:

Buy Hustle & Flow [UMD for PSP] Posters

Lowest Prices Online:
Rent Hustle & Flow [UMD for PSP] UMD for PSP:

Hustle & Flow [UMD for PSP] Summary Djay Is A Memphis Hustler Who Spends Most Days In A Parked Chevy Philosophizing About Life While Nola (taryn Manning), Turn Tricks In The Backseat. He's Not Very Good At Pimping, But He Can Hustle Almost Anything Or Anyone And Makes Enough To Keep Himself And Three Girls Satisfied And Housed In His Shotgun Home. Djay However Is In The Midst Of A Midlife Crisis; He Quietly Harbors Dreams Of Becoming A Respected Rapper. When He Learns From A Local Club Owner, Arnel (isaac Hayes), That Rap Mogul Skinny Black (ludacris), Is Rolling Through Town, Djay Decides To Record His Flow With The Hopes Of Slipping His Demo To Skinny. With Little Help From His Friends And "family" Djay Sets In Motion The Hustle Of His Life, And Galvanizes The Lives Of Those Around Him As They Learn That "everybody's Gotta Have A Dream."

The idea of a soulful pimp as the hero of a movie will strike some viewers as objectionable and perhaps even repellent, but Terrence Dashon Howard's complex and fierce performance will challenge such easy moral decisions. DJay (Howard, Crash, The Best Man) hustles a small stable of whores, including corn-rowed Nola (Taryn Manning, A Lot Like Love). When he learns that former local rapper turned superstar named Skinny Black (real life rapper Ludacris) is coming back to town for the 4th of July, DJay teams up with a frustrated sound engineer (Anthony Anderson, Kangaroo Jack) and a geeky musician (DJ Qualls, Road Trip) to put together a demo tape that he hopes will be his ticket to fame and fortune. What's most impressive about Hustle & Flow is that it doesn't oversell its hero. DJay's aspirations are more economic than poetic--he's not out to create art, he just wants a better life. This lack of pretension allows the movie to capture a genuine sense of how creativity can improve people's lives, which surprises DJay as much as anyone. The movie's other strength is a keen eye for social behavior, in particular the ways in which DJay manipulates everyone around him. Howard, who's almost always stood out in every movie he's made, plays these scenes with what can only be called smooth desperation. The entire cast gives substantial performances, but it's Howard who drives the movie irresistibly forward. --Bret Fetzer

Hustle and Flow [UMD] UMD Techincal Details Cast: Terrence Howard, Taryn Manning, Taraji P. Henson, DJ Qualls
Aspect Ratio:
Rated: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 116 mins
UPC: 097360402346
Binding: UMD for PSP
Studio: Paramount
Release Date: 2006-01-10
Region Code: 1
Specs: Color

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Original Language),