Purple Rain (film)

Purple Rain is a 1984 American rock musical drama film directed by Albert Magnoli and written by Magnoli and William Blinn. In it, Prince makes his film debut, which was developed to showcase his particular talents. Hence, the film contains several extended concert sequences. The film grossed more than US80 million at the box office and became a cult classic. Purple Rain is the only feature film starring Prince that he did not direct. The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score, currently the last film to receive the award. It was nominated for two Razzie Awards, including Worst New Star for Apollonia Kotero and Worst Original Song for Sex Shooter.

The Kid is the talented but troubled frontman of his Minneapolisbased band, The Revolution. To escape his difficult home life his father is verbally and physically abusive, and his mother is emotionally abusive he spends his days rehearsing and his nights performing at the First Avenue nightclub. First Avenues three house band slots are held by The Revolution, the flashy Morris Day and his group The Time, and Dez Dickerson and The Modernaires. Morris knows that the Kids guitarist, Wendy, and keyboardist, Lisa, are growing disgruntled with the Kids leadership of the band, especially his refusal to play any of the music they have composed. Taking advantage of the situation, Morris lobbies Billy Sparks, the nightclubs owner, to back a more commercial girl group which Morris is already forming to replace the Revolution. He targets the Kids girlfriend Apollonia an aspiring singer, newlyarrived in Minneapolis for his girl group, and tries to persuade her that the Kid will never help her establish herself because he cant even establish himself. Apollonia eventually relents and joins Morris group, which Morris names Apollonia 6. When she reveals her partnership with his rival to the Kid, he becomes furious and slaps her, mirroring his fathers actions.At the club, the Kid responds to the internal band strife and the pressure to draw more crowds with an uncomfortably edgy performance of Darling Nikki. The Kids performance publicly humiliates Apollonia, who runs off in tears, and angers both Morris and Billy, which only makes the Kids problems worse. Billy confronts the Kid, pointing out his fathers wasted musical talent and stating that hes following the same path. The debut of Apolloniais a success, and Billy warns the Kid that his First Avenue slot is threatened. The Kid seizes Apollonia from a drunken Morris and the two argue Apollonia abandons him. When he returns home, he finds the house a mess and his mother gone. When he turns on the basement light, his father

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