Craig Brewer
Biography
Craig Houston Brewer (born December 6, 1971) is an American filmmaker. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". He is also known for directing the 2011 remake of Footloose, the 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name and the 2021 film Coming 2 America, the latter two films starring Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy.
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Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Kegger Dancer
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Self
Filmmaker Craig Brewer highlights a number of independent Memphis filmmakers, and shows the full short films Broke on a Saturday, You Better Behave, Blown, Two Hundred Dollars on E-Bay, Clean Up in Booth B, The Morning Ritual and Eso-Phagas.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Self
Featurette about the making of "Footloose."
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Self
Featurette produced for the “Footloose” DVD.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Self
Featurette produced for the “Footloose” DVD.