In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship - Josh Lucas, Jon Voight
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee. Craig Brewer added several touches from his personal life in the script: his wife worked in a strip club, then got pregnant, he would have to turn off the air conditioning to edit or the fuse would blow out and he actually saw a black pimp with a white braids-wearing hooker in a car trying to hustle up some business near a local hotel. - Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning