Underplayed Gems

Stomp the Yard (2007)

Stomp the Yard poster
Directed by
Sylvain White
Genre
drama film, musical film, romance film, teen film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 542 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young man from Los Angeles transfers to an Atlanta university and joins a fraternity. He must help his fraternity's step dance team win a competition against a rival fraternity.

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What happens

Stomp the Yard is a 2007 American dance drama film produced by Rainforest Films and released through Sony Pictures' Screen Gems division on January 12, 2007. Directed by Sylvain White, Stomp the Yard centers on DJ Williams, a college student at a fictional historically black university who pledges to join a fictional Greek-letter fraternity. The film's central conflict involves DJ's fraternity competing in various stepping competitions against a rival fraternity of the same school. The film's script was written by Robert Adetuyi, working from an original draft by Gregory Ramon Anderson. The film was originally titled Steppin', but to avoid confusion over the 2006 film Step Up, the title was changed. Delta Sigma Theta along with other sororities like Gamma Theta were in the movie. The film stars Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Darrin Henson, Brian White, Laz Alonso, and Valarie Pettiford, with Harry Lennix, and, in their film debuts, R&B singers Ne-Yo & Chris Brown. Stomp the Yard was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, on the campuses of Morris Brown College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University, and in the MAK Historic District of Decatur, Georgia. Elsewhere Short, Alonso and Brown had also starred together in the film This Christmas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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