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      Craig Brewer

      Craig Brewer

      Highest Rated: 97% Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

      Lowest Rated: 35% The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

      Birthday: Dec 6, 1971

      Birthplace: Virginia, USA

      Despite only a handful of films under his belt, writer-director Craig Brewer had developed a reputation for being a master Southern storyteller, working in the grand tradition of authors Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, as well as playwright Tennessee Williams, to whom he was routinely compared. Brewer's touch was distinctly modern, however, and with his breakout feature, "Hustle & Flow" (2005), he wowed both critics and audiences with his ability to paint empathetic portraits of typically unappealing characters, while linking past and present generations of the South.

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      Craig Brewer HUSTLE & FLOW, director Craig Brewer on set, 2005, (c) Paramount HUSTLE & FLOW, director Craig Brewer on set, 2005, (c) Paramount BLACK SNAKE MOAN, director Craig Brewer, Justin Timberlake (far right), on set, 2007. ©Paramount Classics BLACK SNAKE MOAN, writer/director Craig Brewer, on set, 2007, ©Paramount Classics HUSTLE & FLOW, director Craig Brewer, producers Stephanie Allain and John Singleton on set, 2005, (c) Paramount HUSTLE & FLOW, director Craig Brewer, producers Stephanie Allain and John Singleton on set, 2005, (c) Paramount HUSTLE & FLOW, director Craig Brewer on set, 2005, (c) Paramount BLACK SNAKE MOAN, director Craig Brewer (left), on set, 2007. ©Paramount Classics

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      49% 38% Coming 2 America Director - 2021
      97% 91% Dolemite Is My Name Director - 2019
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The One You Never Forget Producer - 2019
      35% 58% The Legend of Tarzan Screenwriter $126.6M 2016
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Invaders Executive Producer - 2015
      75% 72% Katy Perry: Part of Me Executive Producer $25.3M 2012
      68% 61% Footloose Director,
      Screenwriter
      $51.8M 2011
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Savage County Executive Producer - 2010
      66% 69% Black Snake Moan Director,
      Writer
      $9.4M 2007
      82% 82% Hustle & Flow Director,
      Writer
      $22.2M 2005
      No Score Yet 13% Water's Edge Screenwriter - 2003
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Pressure Writer - 2002
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Poor and Hungry Director,
      Producer,
      Writer
      - 2000

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet $5 Cover Director 2009
      90% 96% The Shield Director 2008