Powder Blue (2009)

Director:

Timothy Linh Bui

Writers:

Timothy Linh Bui (story)
Timothy Linh Bui (writer)
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Release Date:

15 October 2009 (Kazakhstan)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Every life has a breaking point

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Christmas Eve | Mortician | Ex Priest | Strip Club | Prostitute

Cast

Jessica Biel	...	Rose-Johnny
Eddie Redmayne	...	Qwerty Doolittle
Forest Whitaker	...	Charlie
Ray Liotta	...	Jack Doheny
Lisa Kudrow	...	Sally
Patrick Swayze	...	Velvet Larry
Kris Kristofferson	...	Randall
Alejandro Romero	...	Lexus
Sanaa Lathan	...	Diana
Chandler Canterbury	...	Billy
Jeffery A. Baker	...	Slim (as Jeffrey Adam Baker)
Navid Negahban	...	Doctor Brooks
Ravi Patel	...	Sanjay
Billy Wirth	...	David
Don Swayze	...	Bouncer
Ben Bray	...	Security
Joe Holt	...	Resident Doctor
L. Scott Caldwell	...	Nurse Gomez
Mandy June Turpin	...	Nurse Jenkins
Armando Cosio	...	Jose
Riki Lindhome	...	Nicole
Jesse Henecke	...	Loan Manager
Ana Berry	...	Female Host
Leyna Nguyen	...	Newscast Reporter
Chad Christopher	...	Undercover Security
Soledad Campos	...	Catholic Nun
Clent Bowers	...	Bus Driver #1
Danvy Pham	...	Velvet Larry's Girl
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sala Baker	...	Thug #1 (uncredited)
Sarah Bastian	...	Sarah (uncredited)
Dre Bowie	...	Basketball Player (uncredited)
Greg Brown	...	Drag Queen (uncredited)
Candice Cash	...	Tranny Hooker (uncredited)
François Chau	...	Butcher (uncredited)
Karina Colon	...	Molly's Sister (uncredited)
Rico Devereaux	...	Bouncer #2 (uncredited)
Stella Doyle	...	Woman in Church (uncredited)
Sahara Dawn Ealy	...	Mary (uncredited)
Jeffrey Hallman	...	Young Jack (uncredited)
Sonia Laszlo	...	Happy Girl in Sky Blue Dress (uncredited)
Tracie Leaphart	...	Go-go dancer (uncredited)
Anthony Ledesma	...	Cafe Patron (uncredited)
Lock Lee	...	Pallbearer / Blond Drag Queen (uncredited)
Michelle Lenhardt	...	Angel In Love (uncredited)
Lena Milan	...	Cafe Patron (uncredited)
Cory Patt	...	(uncredited)
Kasey Poteet	...	Stripper (uncredited)
Mark Rayner	...	EMT (uncredited)
Tami Ross	...	Dancer (uncredited)
Gary Sievers	...	Homeless Man with Dog (uncredited)
Kaliya Skye	...	Young Rose (uncredited)
Mike Su	...	Pallbearer (uncredited)
David M. Tran	...	Comic Store Guy (uncredited)
Phong Tran	...	Pallbearer (uncredited)
Yoda Ushery	...	Bar Patron (uncredited)
Jeff Wolfe	...	Ray - Thug (uncredited)

Directed by
Timothy Linh Bui

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Timothy Linh Bui		story
Timothy Linh Bui		writer
Stephane Gauger		story

Produced by
Bill Block	....	executive producer
Timothy Linh Bui	....	producer
David Chang	....	executive producer
Tim Chun	....	executive producer
Christopher J. Corabi	....	associate producer
Ross M. Dinerstein	....	producer
Kimberly Fox	....	executive producer
Jeff Golenberg	....	executive producer
Ron Hartenbaum	....	co-executive producer
Paul Hellerman	....	co-producer
Michael Horn	....	co-executive producer
Aaron Kaufman	....	executive producer
Douglas Kuber	....	co-executive producer
Rick Lashbrook	....	executive producer
Shaun Redick	....	executive producer
Scott Saldana	....	co-executive producer
Bobby Schwartz	....	producer
Alison Semenza	....	co-executive producer
Tracee Stanley	....	producer
Geoff Stults	....	co-executive producer
Forest Whitaker	....	producer

Original Music by
Didier Rachou		(as Didier Lean Rachou)

Cinematography by
Jonathan Sela

Film Editing by
Leo Trombetta

Casting by
Michelle Levy
Ronnie Yeskel

Production Design by
Keith Neely

Art Direction by
Dan Morski

Costume Design by
Magali Guidasci

Makeup Department
Barbara Augustus	....	key makeup artist (as Barbara Augustus-Johnson)
Miia Kovero	....	hair department head
Margarita Pidgeon	....	key hair stylist
Michael Ross	....	prosthetics (as Mike Ross)
Gigi Williams	....	makeup department head

Production Management
Jan Kikumoto	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Morgan Elam	....	second second assistant director
Stephane Gauger	....	second unit director
Keith Jones	....	second second assistant director
Colin McGreal	....	second unit director
Jon Recher	....	second assistant director
Joseph Suarez	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Alysia Allen	....	art department coordinator
Thomas Betts	....	set designer
Don 'Tex' Clark	....	set dresser
Talia De Marco	....	art department intern
Mark Finer	....	on-set dresser
Jeffery Goyer	....	construction coordinator
J. Lauren Jackson	....	art department intern (as Jacelyn Lauren Jackson)
Kay Kropp	....	head painter
Kami Laprade	....	assistant property master
Colin McGreal	....	storyboard artist
Jason Mueller	....	props
Cynthia Nibler	....	property master
Eli Presser	....	puppet fabricator
Rodney Rosene	....	set dresser
Michael Voelker	....	assistant property master
Maret Wicken	....	paint foreman

Sound Department
Kyle Billingsley	....	foley mixer
Willie D. Burton	....	production sound mixer
Chris David	....	sound re-recording mixer
Brian Dunlop	....	foley editor
Christopher Eakins	....	sound effects editor
Andrew Edelman	....	additional boom operator
David Esparza	....	sound designer
David Esparza	....	supervising sound editor
John Hays	....	additional utility sound
David Parker	....	sound mixer
Gabriel J. Serrano	....	sound recordist
Eric Thompson	....	adr mixer
Callie Thurman	....	assistant sound editor
Lisa Varetakis	....	supervising dialog editor

Special Effects by
Anthony Lee Henderson	....	rain effects
Philip Henderson	....	rain effects
Philip Neil Henderson	....	rain effects assistant
Roger Kelton	....	special effects technician
Zak Knight	....	special effects foreman

Visual Effects by
Evan Ghigliotty	....	digital compositor
Drew Johnson	....	digital artist
Benjamin Martin	....	digital compositor
Roger Mocenigo	....	digital compositor: Amalgamated Pixels
Michael Morreale	....	executive producer: Amalgamated Pixels, Inc.
Jeremy Oddo	....	visual effects
Phillip Palousek	....	visual effects coordinator
Eric Pham	....	visual effects supervisor
Randy Polk	....	simulation artist
Rebecca Rakoncay	....	matte painter: Amalgamated Pixels
Francisco Ramos	....	visual effects
Michael Roderick	....	lead compositor
Daniel Solano	....	visual effects
Tammy Sutton	....	2D supervisor: Amalgamated Pixels
David Van Woert	....	visual effects producer
Leo Vezzali	....	visual effects supervisor
Johnathon Vought	....	assistant visual effects supervisor
Jeremy Ward	....	visual effects
Eric Barbour	....	digital compositor (uncredited)
Charles Kohlmyer	....	compositing trainee (uncredited)

Stunts
J.J. Dashnaw	....	utility stunts
Steve Davidson	....	stunt double: Jack
Steve M. Davison	....	stunt coordinator
Carrick O'Quinn	....	utility stunts
Jimmy N. Roberts	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Eric D. Anderson	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
Barry Berona	....	camera operator
Barry Berona	....	director of photography: second unit
Gary Bevans	....	camera assistant
Richard W. Botchlet	....	assistant chief lighting technician
Jeremie Brillant	....	grip
Andrew Clarke	....	lighting console programmer
Ryan Copeland	....	set lighting technician
Daniel Cotroneo	....	set lighting technician
David Erickson	....	first assistant camera
Hiroyuki Fukuda	....	first assistant additional camera: second unit
Erik Gonzales	....	additional best boy electric
Erik Gonzales	....	electrician
Erik Gonzales	....	lighting technician
Mark Hyde	....	key grip
Steve Irvine	....	lighting technician
Thomas McCarty	....	lighting technician
Dustin Penrod	....	electrician
Jay Pope	....	grip
Hong Suwadji	....	camera trainee
Maxwell Thorpe	....	grip
Scott R. Todd	....	chief lighting technician
Remi Tournois	....	additional camera operator
Raul Vasquez	....	grip
Craig Wadlin	....	grip
Chuck Zlotnick	....	still photographer
Eric Zucker	....	a dolly grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Yasmine Abraham	....	costume supervisor
Tracie Leaphart	....	assistant costume designer
Michelle Margolis	....	set costumer
Emanuela Vincenzi	....	costume assistant

Editorial Department
Jason Bretz	....	assistant editor
Marisa Clayton	....	digital intermediate producer: Modern VideoFilm
John Craig	....	dailies colorist
Sue Gates	....	digital intermediate colorist
David Marks	....	assistant editor
Joel T. Pashby	....	assistant editor
Christopher Wild Rogers	....	digital intermediate producer

Music Department
Debra Baum	....	music supervisor
Drew DeAscentis	....	music editor
Braden Dick	....	music coordinator
Roman Tobias Pettigrew	....	assistant to composer
Peter Rotter	....	orchestra contractor
Michael Stern	....	music recording engineer
Aaron Zigman	....	composer: additional music

Transportation Department
Corey Askins	....	transportation captain
Al Burton	....	transportation coordinator
J. Armin Garza II	....	driver: camera car
Philip Henderson	....	watertruck driver
Gary Jackson	....	transportation
Zoa Keith	....	transportation
Eli Lozano	....	driver: honeywagon
Kim Magruder	....	driver generator operator
Robert Mckee	....	picture car mechanic
Kelly Murphy	....	driver
Harry Victor Schultz	....	driver: Ray Liotta
Marilyn Shannon	....	driver: set dressing
Eric Solmonson	....	driver

Other crew
Erik Bright	....	publicist
Christopher J. Corabi	....	production legal counsel
Celeste Den	....	assistant: Ms. Stanley-Newell
Braden Dick	....	assistant: Ms. Baum
Fizaa Dosani	....	assistant to producer
Tim Farrands	....	crafts service assistant
Philip Hoang	....	assistant: Mr. Linh Bui
John Robert Johnson	....	location scout
Jina Kim	....	assistant production coordinator
Tanya Leal Soto	....	assistant: Mr. Whitaker (as Tanya Leal)
Richard Lilly	....	set production assistant
Ella Marcus	....	key craft service
Jenny Napier	....	assistant: Mr. Schwartz and Mr. Dinerstein
Karma Neff	....	choreographer
Navia Nguyen	....	creative consultant: Mr. Linh Bui
Monika Petrillo	....	script supervisor
Corinna Pieloch	....	publicist
Eli Presser	....	puppetry consultant
Emily Rice	....	post-production accountant
Joey Rivera	....	craft service
Michael Salamon	....	creative consultant: Mr. Linh Bui (as Michael 'Serp' Salamon)
Yoni Tabac	....	production coordinator
Gregory Tapscott	....	key assistant location manager
Marcus Taylor	....	key set production assistant
Karla Torres	....	production coordinator
Michael Weathersby	....	stand-in: Forest Whitaker
Allen Wong	....	production accountant

Thanks
Lori Johnson	....	thanks
Raymond Mansfield	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Blue Snow Productions
• Eleven Eleven Films
• Grosvenor Park Media
• Grosvenor Park Productions
• Spirit Dance Entertainment

Distributors

• Speakeasy Releasing (2009) (USA) (theatrical)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Albania) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Bulgaria) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Croatia) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Czech Republic) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Hungary) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Kosovo) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Republic of Macedonia) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Montenegro) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Romania) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Serbia) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Slovakia) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Slovenia) (all media)
• CInema Hotel Corporation (CHC) (2010) (Kazakhstan) (theatrical)
• Image Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• Image Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Ledafilms (2009) (Mexico) (TV)
• SP Films (2009) (Argentina) (DVD)
• SP Films (2009) (Argentina) (all media)
• Sunfilm Entertainment (2009) (Germany) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Amalgamated Pixels (visual effects)
• Phame Factory (additional visual effects)

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera dollies
• Direct Tools & Fasteners  expendables
• Film Finances  completion guarantor
• Identity Studios  visual effects
• Ronnie Yeskel Casting  casting
• Wildfire Studios  adr recording facility
• Wildfire Studios  editorial facilities
• Wildfire Studios  sound post-production
• Wildfire Studios  sound re-recording

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use

Runtime:

106 min | Germany:115 min (European Film Market)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Singapore:M18 | Finland:K-15 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Portugal:M/16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Blue Snow Productions

Trivia:

Patrick Swayze's final feature film performance.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: 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.

Quotes:

Velvet Larry:But on Christmas Eve, I'm gonna have a lot of very lonely people out of my club. Some even thinking about killing themselves. And they come here looking for companionship. They're looking for a little bit of love. They are looking for a little bit of hope.

Movie Connections:

References Annie Hall (1977)

Soundtrack:

Ride-Goldrush

Excellent

I guess that there are no comments in this section because people are speechless after watching the movie. The clichéd label of a film where worlds collide, doesn't do it justice. Anyone who has ever felt the emotional pain of having it all and then seemingly having nothing will understand the message behind this tale. Also the raw emotions that are born through loneliness and suffering. Above all of this there seems to be an underlying message of the goodness of human nature and the fact that the world keeps on turning no matter what. Needless to say i really liked it and thought the acting was second to none. The most touching movie I have seen in a long time.