When Hustle & Flow premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, it was the definition of an underdog story — a gritty, Memphis-made drama about a small-time hustler who dreams of becoming a rapper.

Henson and Howard starred in a much different project based on the hip hop industry in 2005. Hustle and Flow saw the Iron Man star playing a pimp and drug dealer with aspirations to be a successful ...

Being a white guy from Memphis clearly hasn't kept filmmaker Craig Brewer from getting down with the gritty barbeque-and-blues essence of the sleepy Southern city in his jamming little underdog movie ...

When Craig Brewer thinks back on Hustle & Flow, one word still comes to mind: miracle. "I've been thinking about what a miracle the movie is - that no one wanted to make it," Brewer tells Gold Derby. ...

Two decades after his breakout hit, the director looks back on the film that changed his life, launched Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, and made Three 6 Mafia Oscar winners.