Hustle & Flow (2005)

Sounds completely different: low-level pimp works to to break out as a rapper just like his hometown idol Skinny Black did. But it's actually just the standard-issue formula movie: hero/heroine, tired of their same ol' life follows a dream toward a different life and it doesn't quite work out...until right before the credits, that is.

Definitely watchable, but it's not unique in the least.

B-