Drumline (2002)

 

Release date: December 13, 2002

Director: Charles Stone III

Writer(s): Tina Gordon Chism, Shawn Schepps

Starring: Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana

Estimated budget: $20 million

U.S. Box Office: $56.3 million

Foreign: $1.1 million

Worldwide: $57.5 million

 

Set against the high-energy, high-stakes world of show-style marching bands, "Drumline" is a fish-out-of-water comedy about a talented street drummer from Harlem who enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world before realizing that it takes a more than talent to reach the top.

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