Powder Blue (film)

Powder Blue is a 2008 drama film with an ensemble cast featuring several interconnected story arcs. It was written and directed by Timothy Linh Bui, and features Patrick Swayzes last film role before his death the following year. The film saw only limited theatrical release in the USA and was ultimately released principally on DVD in May 2009. The film was subsequently released in Kazakhstan and Russia and on US cable television premium movie channels in late 2009.

Patrick Swayze plays the sleazy owner of the strip club where Jessica Biels character dances. Biels character, RoseJohnny, is a dancer and single mother whose young son is in a coma. Eddie Redmayne portrays a young mortician who falls in love with her. Kris Kristofferson plays the head of a corporate crime organization who tries to convince his former employee Ray Liotta not to seek vengeance on his coworkers. Liottas character later reveals to RoseJohnny that he is her father. Forest Whitaker, who also serves as a producer on the film, is a suicidal expriest. Alejandro Romero plays a transvestite prostitute who shares an unexpected emotional bond with the priest.According to Variety magazine, the heartstringpulling contrivances of the film, set during Christmastime, go way over the top...Biel often overacts even more than her role requires. The magazine calls director Buis trumpeting of the power of love in the city of lonely hearts ... both earsplittingly loud and tonedeaf at the same time with Jonathan Selas color palette of nightmarish reds and blues and blinding whites, simply enforcing the pics borderline hysteria. ........

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