Powder Blue (2009)

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

Writers:

Timothy Linh Bui (story), Timothy Linh Bui

Stars:

Jessica Biel, Eddie Redmayne, Forest Whitaker

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

stripper pole | stripper | female frontal nudity | sex scene | oral sex | 

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Taglines:

How far would you go to find the love of your life?

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 October 2009 (Kazakhstan)

Also Known As:

A kék szoba

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Blue Snow Productions,Eleven Eleven Films,Grosvenor Park Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

106 min 115 min (European Film Market)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

According to Writer and Director Timothy Linh Bui, he cast Ray Liotta after meeting him in an Italian restaurant by pure coincidence. Even stranger was that Liotta was the only customer when Bui walked in.

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Goofs

At the beginning the movie Ray Liotta is standing nude facing the ocean. A moment later, after entering the water, bathing trunks can be seen below the water line.

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Quotes

Charlie: [Stares at the crucifix] Why are you doing this to me? My only sin is love!

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Connections

References Annie Hall (1977)

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Soundtracks

Flying with You
Written by Saint Le Roq
Performed by Saint Le Roq
Courtesy of ToyVox Music
Under license from ToyVox Music (BMI)

User Reviews

Another group of short movies not good enough to stand on their own and not that great when tossed together like stir fry into this mess.

Our main character is a chubby black man that wants to die now that he has lost his wife and is trying to pay various random people to kill him, one of the people he asks to kill him is part of another movie running alongside his dumb deathwish- the other half of the movie is about a disturbing looking geeky dweeb who finds a stripper's dog- and since every stripper has a heart of gold- they hit it off when they meet/return it because he was so sensitive to take care of her puppy wuppy *sigh*. Take two hard to swallow yet still -totally boring- stories and begin to tell the other one as soon as the first gets boring to keep your mind off the fact that they are BOTH stupid AND boring plots with dopey actors. This movie sucks and uses a popular editing trick to try and make it seem like it doesn't by continually changing the focus of the movie.. sort of like a retarded attempt at being slick I guess. It fails, this movie fails.