Craig Brewer
Maltin on Movies
Leonard Maltin
4.3 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
With a terrific new movie called Song Sung Blue opening on Christmas day, writer-director Craig Brewer adds another bull's-eye to his filmography, which includes Hustle and Flow, the remake of Footloose, and Eddie Murphy's Dolemite is My Name. Although completely self-taught, he had a great mentor in the late John Singleton and an ability to glean the best lessons to be derived from reading all the film-related books he could while punching a clock at Barnes and Noble.
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| 0:38.5 | You're listening to Malton on movies, and our guest today has made some very good ones, including one that opening Christmas Day in theaters. |
| 0:47.1 | It's called Song Sung Blue. |
| 0:49.6 | I'll talk about it for a little while, but he has a great resume a very interesting |
| 0:55.4 | background too welcome to Craig Brewer pleasure to be here how are you about |
| 1:01.3 | doing well I'm very grateful to you because you gave me a gift and the gift is my |
| 1:07.1 | parents watching a good movie I'll'll tell you something, Craig. |
| 1:11.6 | I live with parents who watch a lot of bad movies. |
| 1:14.6 | And you know what? |
| 1:16.6 | As happy as he generally is, few things bring him more joy than a good film. |
| 1:23.6 | And when they both watched it together the other day, they said to me, this is one of the best movies we've seen this year. |
| 1:30.3 | They went on, I mean, really, really everything that your ego could need, they said. |
| 1:35.3 | That, they loved it. |
| 1:36.3 | It really does. |
| 1:38.3 | And I'll tell you what actually fills my heart the most is that I really have been touched when people say they've |
| 1:47.1 | brought their parents to see the movie like that and and even when people say you know what I think |
| 1:53.0 | I'm going to I'm going to bring my parents and I think there's only like a handful of movies |
| 1:58.8 | that I know recently where people have said that. |
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