Everybody gotta have a dream.
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
“This is a Memphis story – a movie about making music by any means necessary,” says Craig Brewer, writer-director of the new film “Hustle & Flow.” “Music has been our common love and language. It’s our chance to take our pain, our struggle, our tools, and put it into something that has a beat, raw and unfiltered.”