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Release Date:

Aug 25,2006

MPAA Rating:

R For violence, sexuality, nudity and language.

Genres:

Musical/ Drama

Running Time:

2 Hr 0 Mins

Seen At:

Ritz Bourse 8-23-06

Distributor:

 

Budget:

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In the 1930s American South, there was one spot that served as a haven -- a place of prayer for the weary, joy for the hopeful and music for the masses. All were welcome to come and find the Lord as they walked into church on Sunday mornings. When the good and righteous built these houses of worship, however, they did ask guests to leave a few things at the door, namely: cussing, liquor, fast women, gambling and guns. And that was the part of the sermon to which Rooster just didn’t pay attention. In his nightclub called “Church,” there was only one story to tell…one in the key of cool.

Welcome to Idlewild, Georgia. Welcome to Church.

In Idlewild, players gather nightly at Church, with childhood friends -- who grew up on opposite sides of the tracks -- Rooster and Percival playing two key roles at the club. Soft-spoken and reserved mortician Percival sees playing piano at the nightclub as welcome respite from the doldrums of working in his overbearing father’s (Tony Award winner BEN VEREEN, Roots, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Broadway’s Wicked) funeral home. One night in Church, Percival meets the latest celebrity to tour the South, the ethereal Angel (newcomer PAULA PATTON). Percival falls head over heels in love with the ingénue and is faced with a choice: stay or leave his oppressive father behind and pursue his dreams of becoming a song-and-dance man in the big cities of which he’s only dreamed.


 
 

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