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Powder Blue (2009) 6.3
Four Los Angelenos -- a mortician, an ex-con, a suicidal ex-priest, and a stripper -- are brought together on Christmas Eve by a mixture of circumstances. Director:Timothy Linh Bui |
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| Forest Whitaker | ... | ||
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Los Angelenos meet on Christmas Eve through chance, tragedy, and divine intervention. Velvet Larry is the sleazy owner of the strip club where the glamorous but struggling single mother Rose Johnny dances. Qwerty Doolittle is a shy young mortician who falls in love with her. Randall is the head of a corporate crime organization who tries to convince a former employee just released from prison not to seek vengeance on his former co-workers. Charlie is a suicidally depressed ex-priest. Lexus is a lonely transsexual prostitute who shares an unexpected bond with the former priest. Written by Anonymous
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How far would you go to find the love of your life? See more »Genres:
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Rated R for sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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15 October 2009 (Kazakhstan) See more »Also Known As:
Esperanzas cruzadas See more »Filming Locations:
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Jack Doheny: Just passing through. I don't have a lot of time to waste.
Randall: I had no choice. After you went down, the feds were watching me like a hawk. I couldn't go down like that. I had a family to take care of.
Jack Doheny: What about me, I didn't have a family? Twenty five years I did, twenty five years. You don't call, you don't write, you don't do shit. We're friends? I swear I would kill you if given a chance.
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Written by Mae Boren Axton (as Boren Axton), Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley
Performed by Studio Musicians
Courtesy of Priddis Music
Under license from Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
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Forest Whitaker is the only one of the four main characters to not have blue eyes. He is also the only one to never enter the strip club where Rose-Johnny works. See more »Goofs
You can see Forest Whitaker's reflection in glass in the scene where he sits next to his wife on the bench, as if the shot has been taken through a neutral density filter in order to use a large aperture. See more »Quotes
Randall: Welcome back.Jack Doheny: Just passing through. I don't have a lot of time to waste.
Randall: I had no choice. After you went down, the feds were watching me like a hawk. I couldn't go down like that. I had a family to take care of.
Jack Doheny: What about me, I didn't have a family? Twenty five years I did, twenty five years. You don't call, you don't write, you don't do shit. We're friends? I swear I would kill you if given a chance.
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Soundtracks
"Heartbreak Hotel"Written by Mae Boren Axton (as Boren Axton), Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley
Performed by Studio Musicians
Courtesy of Priddis Music
Under license from Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
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Allow me to get one thing out of the way right now: if you are a straight male (or gay woman) between the ages of 18-50 you might as well consider this movie required viewing simply because of Jessica Biel's topless scenes. To be honest it's not the greatest thing since sliced bread and it's not really in a sexualized context, but just to say you saw it should be enough. A little juvenile? Sure...but there it is. I'm kidding of course (kind of) but really...not bad.
Basically what you have here feels kind of like a lame rip off of Crash. A lot of stories happening in the same time line that feel like they should intersect a lot more than they do. Without that intersection it feels like a lot of little pieces rather than a whole. I can't help but feel like some of these actors were slumming it, particularly Ray Liotta. Has there been a movie since Field Of Dreams where he didn't play either a dirt bag or a stand up guy with a shady past? Talk about typecasting. There also seems to be a waste of perfectly good Lisa Kudrow in the film. I guess I don't understand casting her in the movie at all for such a small part when I'm sure they could've found someone just as good for a lot less money.
One small technical annoyance...the film has a pronounced grain to it that I assume is supposed to give it a gritty feel. The problem is that the subject matter isn't as gritty as the production values, so it feels a bit over done. Aside from that it's not a bad movie, but not a good movie either. I would have liked it a lot more if the writers had tried to tie the stories together more. As I said before, the way it is feels more like a collection of pieces more than a whole film. I wouldn't pass it by, but I certainly wouldn't tell everyone I know to check it out. It is what it is...pretty mediocre.