Hustle and Flow (2005)
Hustle and Flow (2005) is the Hip-Hop Purple Rain that 8 Mile wanted to be. How? By including all the things that made Purple Rain great that were missing in 8 Mile: A great (Oscar-winning, even) soundtrack (every song in Purple Rain was great, the only great song in 8 Mile was the one that played during the end credits), a great co-star rival (Ludacris is the new Morris Day), hot chicks that you don’t hate, and a sense of Cool that Eminem’s trailer-trash mill worker just couldn’t achieve.
Pimps! Hoes! Dirty Souf! Music that HAS to get out, by any means necessary.
Hustle and Flow manages to retell that story we all know without boring us or letting us fall into a sense of knowing what will come next.