Hustle & Flow

Paramount / MTV Films

Terence Howard is a great talented thespian and his talent oozes out of his pores but, lets not forget Tarin Manning. Tarin is such a brilliant actress she can easily steal the spotlight from Terence Howard's DJay. She brings a genuine vulnerability to the role of Nola, a young, impressionable runaway who is the main money maker in DJay's house of ho's. "Nola has a certain ignorance about her" "There's a certain naivete to the fact that she's being exploited" "Everybody in this house except for Nola has something to do" " She doesn't have anything that she knows she's good at-but only because nobody's ever demanded more of her"

Terrence Howard, whose face and voice have stolen
scenes in over thirty movies, gets his breakout starring role in HUSTLE & FLOW, playing a Memphis pimp in midlife crisis who, with the help of his friends and "family," finds his voice as a rapper. DJAY (Terrence Howard) is a hardworking pimp who spends most days in his parked Chevy philosophizing about life. DJay's a good pimp but bad with money.

He and his girls, including runaway NOLA (Taryn Manning), make enough to get by. In the midst of a mid-life crisis, DJay harbors dreams of recording his flow and becoming a respected rapper. When pot client and club owner (Isaac Hayes) tells DJay that local rapper turned mogul Skinny Black (Ludacris), is rolling through town for July 4th, DJay sees an opportunity to change his life for the better. Writer-director Craig Brewer was discovered by producer Stephanie Allain, who helped filmmakers like John Singleton and Robert Rodriguez break out with their first films. Singleton and Allain produced HUSTLE & FLOW.

I must give props to this production cause you can't knock their hustle and I def believe in what the producers stand for. So yeah go check the Hustle & Flow.