Half-time is game time", quips a minor character in Drumline, a movie centered on the intense competition and pageantry of the Marching Bands of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities of the South. The marching bands set the framework for Drumline a movie about a gifted, yet cocky young drummer who realizes that it takes more than talent to succeed. Set in Atlanta, at the fictitious Atlanta A&T University, we meet Devon Miles (Nickelodeon's Nick Cannon) a young street drummer from Harlem who gets a full scholarship to play in the school's marching band. He turns out to be the best asset on the drumline, but he's also a prima donna, and he tangles early and heatedly with his section leader, Sean (Buffy's Leonard Roberts), an upper-classman who's dedicated 3 years to the drumline and doesn't want Devon to warp the harmony. To add to the tension between the two, Devon upstages Sean on a couple of occasions, and becomes the favorite of the Dean, but not of his besieged band director Dr. Lee (Orlando Jones: Mad TV, The Time Machine). The band director of neighboring school and competition rival, Morris Brown University, also notices his talents, and antics. Morris Brown has been mopping the floor with A&T for the past few years at the BET Southern Classic, an annual competition for HBCU marching bands.
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