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.
Casts André 3000, Big Boi, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams, Cicely Tyson, Macy Gray, Ben Vereen, Bruce Bruce
MOVIE COMMENTS
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Le Pion
Top Hat
The Cotton Club
Saving Silverman
Four Minutes
The Piano Teacher
Blueprint
Reflections
Tokyo Sonata
Powder Blue
The 24th Day
Tales from the Hood
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Crisis
Easter Parade
For Me and My Gal
Saigon
Holiday Inn
White Christmas
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 2005
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.Le Pion
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1978
Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a book.Top Hat
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 1935
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.The Cotton Club
IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 1984
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.Saving Silverman
IMDB 5.7 | Feb , 2001
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.Four Minutes
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 2006
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.The Piano Teacher
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2001
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.Blueprint
IMDB 4.1 | Dec , 2003
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also herself, beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom, in this way, she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being. In fact a blueprint: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment on nothing is as it was before...Reflections
IMDB 6.7 | Feb , 1987
Mihajlo, an introvert piano teacher starts romance with a pretty careerist who teaches modeling at the university in Belgrade where they both work. His feelings are awakened after a long period, but this relationship makes him see the flashbacks, as well as yet unseen images that remind him of his troubled childhood - as if he experienced this already. When their university wins a contest to hold public TV performance, Mihailo fails to play the piano on the decisive night and she dumps him. The boiling point is about to come.Tokyo Sonata
IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 2008
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.Powder Blue
IMDB 6.1 | May , 2009
On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.The 24th Day
IMDB 6.5 | May , 2004
Tom and Dan's one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.Tales from the Hood
IMDB 6.3 | May , 1995
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
IMDB 6.1 | Jun , 1953
Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.Crisis
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 1946
A poor Swedish piano teacher and her foster daughter’s lives are upended when the child’s biological mother arrives in their small town to reclaim her.Easter Parade
IMDB 7 | Jul , 1948
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.For Me and My Gal
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 1942
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.Saigon
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 1947
After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job for profiteers Maris to finance a good time for his buddy. As the plane takes off he shoves Maris' secretary Susan on board. When Mike falls for her, Larry tells her to play along for Mike's sake. She, of course, falls for Larry.Holiday Inn
IMDB 7 | Jan , 1942
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.White Christmas
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 1954
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.