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Purple Rain

Cast

Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos View All

Crew

William Blinn (Writer), Albert Magnoli (Director), Albert Magnoli (Writer) View All

Release: Jul. 27th, 1984

Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes

A victim of his own anger, the Kid is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music. While trying to avoid making the same mistakes as his truculent father, the Kid navigates the club scene and a rocky relationship with a captivating singer, Apollonia. But another musician, Morris, looks to steal the Kid's spotlight -- and his girl.

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There is no other film like this. Made with amateur directors, actors, and filmmakers, this is really 3 films in 1: a concert performance film (superlative, amazing), really awful MST3K hilarious acti...

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Prince was one of the biggest musical acts of the 1980's and Hollywood decided to get their piece of the pie by offering the musician the lead in a 1984 film called Purple Rain, framed around Prince's music in which he pretty much plays himself (the character is only referred to as "The Kid"), an ar....

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