A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands of gangsters who want to take it over.
Percival
André 3000
Rooster
Big Boi
Angel
Paula Patton
Trumpy
Terrence Howard
Ace
Faizon Love
Zora
Malinda Williams
Mother Hopkins
Cicely Tyson
Taffy
Macy Gray
Percy Senior
Ben Vereen
Nathan
Bruce Bruce
Rose
Paula Jai Parker
Young Rooster
Bobb'e J. Thompson
The Real Angel Davenport
Patti LaBelle
Spats
Ving Rhames
Monk
Jackie Long
Bobo
Oscar Dillon
Cliff
Jalil Jay Lynch
Sonny
Esau McGraw
Young Percival
Bre'Wan Waddell
Auntie Belle
Carol Mitchell-Leon
Rooster's Daughter
China Anderson
Rooster's Daughter
Isis Faust
Rooster's Daughter
Kyra Freeman
Rooster's Daughter
Kabrina Truesdale
Fatts
Rodney Johnson
GW
Bill Nunn
Church Dancer
Nadine Ellis
Walter
Afemo Omilami
Voice-Over (uncredited)
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