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Title: Purple Rain (1984)
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| Prince | ... | The Kid | |
| Apollonia Kotero | ... | Apollonia | |
| Morris Day | ... | Morris | |
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Olga Karlatos | ... | Mother |
| Clarence Williams III | ... | Father | |
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Jerome Benton | ... | Jerome |
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Billy Sparks | ... | Billy |
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Jill Jones | ... | Jill |
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Charles Huntsberry | ... | Chick |
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Dez Dickerson | ... | Dez |
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Brenda Bennett | ... | Brenda |
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Susan Moonsie | ... | Susan (as Susan) |
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Sandra Claire Gershman | ... | Beautiful Babe |
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Kim Upsher | ... | Kim |
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Alan Leeds | ... | Stage Hand |
A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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No movie has ever has as much impact on me as Purple Rain. And isn't that one of the signs of a great movie? I remember a colorless year of what I considered very boring music. Then Prince came along with his music & movie and painted the world purple for a brief moment in time. I don't care how feminine Prince was, he was getting the best looking girls and he was my hero. I saw the movie in the theatres four times that year & I still long for the days when it was seen in widescreen format on the big screen being played LOUD. To me, a guy who normally marvels at the cinematography of Hitchcock and has a video collection of over 600 movies, Purple Rain is flawless. It is a movie that can be screened 20 years from now and will still survive the test of time. Prince, today, is too serious & strange to be fun anymore, but there was a time when he was alot of fun & this movie documents that time. From the very second the movie starts, it creates a mood with flashes of images that stay in the mind as much as the images of Citizen Caine do. Prince takes us on a journey & gives us a peek at what it was like to be around that great Minneapolis sound at it's birth. Morris Day & Jerome Benton were as good a comedy team as any. And they, with The Time, add two really good songs as well. But it is Prince's music that completes the movie & makes it what it is: a movie I can pull out every five years and really enjoy.