Stomp the Yard (2007) on Netflix
PG-1320071h 49mDramaMusicRomance
After his younger brother Duron is killed, DJ Williams leaves Los Angeles for Truth University in Atlanta. He falls for April Palmer while two rival fraternities compete for his moves.
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Plot summary
DJ Williams and his younger brother Duron dance with a Los Angeles crew, the Goon Squad, and a double-or-nothing battle against The Thug Unit ends in a fight that leaves Duron dead. Convicted of assault, DJ avoids prison when his mother sends him to Atlanta, where his aunt Jackie and uncle Nate take him in and he enrolls at Truth University. Nate puts him to work in a maintenance work-study program. DJ is drawn to April Palmer right away, meets his roommate Rich Brown, and watches Theta Nu Theta and Mu Gamma Xi, the seven-time national stepping champions, step on the green. When he runs through the Mu Gamma Xi line to reach April, she returns to her boyfriend Grant, and both fraternities want DJ for their step crews.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Stomp the Yard (2007)
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- Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, supported by Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, threatened a boycott over the unauthorized use of some of the fraternity's trademarks by producers Will Packer and Rob Hardy, both members. The threat ended when Sony Pictures and Screen Gems agreed to remove all references and made a donation to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation.
- The film opened at number one with a first-weekend gross of $22 million, the first film in three weekends to beat out Night at the Museum, and on a budget of $13 million it went on to gross $61 million in the United States and $75 million worldwide.
- Despite the controversy, the filmmakers were honored by Alpha Phi Alpha at the fraternity's 103rd Anniversary Convention held in New Orleans in 2009.
- Sony Pictures held a national high school stepping competition in conjunction with the release of the film, and the winning team came from North Stafford High School in the suburb of Stafford, Virginia.
- The film was originally titled Steppin, but the title was changed to avoid confusion with the 2006 film Step Up.
