Powder Blue (2009)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Timothy Linh Bui

Writers:

Timothy Linh Bui (story)
Timothy Linh Bui (writer)

Release Date:

30 July 2009 (Russia)

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 | Ex Priest | Suicidal | Mortician | Rose

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 Jeffery Adam Baker)
Navid Negahban	...	Dr. Brooks
Ravi Patel	...	Sanjay
Billy Wirth	...	David
Don Swayze	...	Bouncer

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

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Blue Snow Productions

Trivia:

When Rose-Johnny and Jack talk by telephone through the glass, their reflections are always visible when they aren't in the shot. In The Silence of the Lambs (1991), this effect is also used between Starling and Hannibal Lector.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: 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 from inside a car.

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:

It's Your Kisses

Interesting and well done film of the life struggles of complex characters, yet it all intersects to a heavenly means in the city of angels.

"Powder Blue" wasn't one of those big cinema releases, yet it was a film with a gripping powerful story of the intersecting of complex paths in the city of L.A.. And the all star cast made the film watchable. Set in modern day L.A. on the tough and rumble streets the films main focus is on four characters and it involves the showing of their everyday hardships and problems only all will collide by luck, destiny, and happens chance. Jessica Biel who's always beautiful and such a pleasure to view really shines as a young desperate single mom with a dying kid who's only hope is to earn money to support her cocaine habit by doing nude dancing as a stripper. Enter Ray Liotta as an ex con just released yet he has terminal cancer only he will discover thru Biel's character that life finally does have some touching emotional moments. And Forrest Whitaker is a character you feel desperate for as he is a man with no will to live after losing his wife as he will go to any lengths to be killed. And to round out you have a young mortician played by Eddie Redmayne who's lonely only in the end destiny will have it he will find love with the Biel character. This film is pretty powerful for it's message it sends that no matter how desperate life is for some unexpected hope can be found and everyone has a destiny. Plus no matter how different and complex people are they are all the same as their paths were meant to cross to help one another as in the end that leads to a heavenly and peaceful ending. Overall great film with an all star cast that proves life is a harsh struggle yet with help and connecting their is hope.