The Essential Memphis Library: Craig Brewer’s ‘Hustle & Flow’
Craig Brewer’s “Hustle and Flow,” which sold to Paramount Classics/MTV for a then-festival record of $16 million, was a colorful and youthful rap movie set amid strugglers and strivers on the city’s mean streets. (Submitted)
Twenty years ago — Jan. 29, 2005 — was perhaps the greatest day in the history of Memphis movies, with a pair of made-in-Memphis films taking the top two prizes at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.
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Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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