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.
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
Oscar Dillon
Bobo
Jalil Jay Lynch
Cliff
Esau McGraw
Sonny
Bre'Wan Waddell
Young Percival
Carol Mitchell-Leon
Auntie Belle
China Anderson
Rooster's Daughter
Isis Faust
Kyra Freeman
Kabrina Truesdale
Rodney Johnson
Fatts
Bill Nunn
GW
Nadine Ellis
Church Dancer
Afemo Omilami
Walter
Josette Wiggan
Dabier
Voice-Over (uncredited)
Bryan Barber
Director, Producer
Producer
Erika Conner
Robert Guralnick
Charles Roven
Blue Williams
Sep 5, 2001
Dec 16, 1954
Dec 8, 2003
Mar 13, 1937
Apr 29, 1985
Jul 8, 1948
Mar 18, 1939
Oct 25, 1978
Dec 1, 2000
Oct 17, 1950
Oct 10, 2014
Nov 22, 1935
Aug 20, 1982
May 15, 2003
Jun 19, 2019
Nov 24, 2021
HBO Films
US
Forensic Films
Atlas Entertainment
Universal Pictures
United States
English