Idlewild is a brightly colored Southern fantasy, set in the Prohibition-era eponymous Georgia town (these are happy, well-dressed times, not the province of institutionalized racism or rural deprivation). Rooster (Patton) runs a nightclub; he's equal parts family man, rum-runner and entertainer. His childhood buddy, Percival ([Benjamin]), is a quiet sort, who works with his gloomy dad (Ben Vereen) at a funeral home. But at night, Percival tiptoes out to Rooster's club, where he tinkles the ivories in the club's band while wishing he had the nerve let loose with some of his own innovative compositions.

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