Purple Rain
Description
The urgent, explosive feature debut of rock's Prince.
Take a richly-human story of survival and triumph, a now soundtrack by some of the hottest bands around and the startling, brooding presence of 24-year old rock superstar Prince – the man who lived the music – and you've got Purple Rain, which according to Rolling Stone, "may be the smartest, most spiritually ambitious rock-'n'-roll movie ever made."
This is the passionate behind-the-scenes stuff that rock-'n'-roll dreams are made of, a pulsating, slice-of-rock semiautobiographical film starring Prince as "The Kid," a Minneapolis club musician known for his lightning guitar riffs and flash-fire vocals. As alienated as he is talented, The Kid struggles with both a tumultuous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero (lead singer of the camisole-chic Apollonia 6).
This turbulent, gutsy film sizzles, seethes and rocks in a way few rock films ever have. Hot-blooded Prince and his band The Revolution give electrifying performances of songs like the exhilarating "Let's Go Crazy," "I Would Die 4 U," the plaintive classic "When Doves Cry" and, of course, "Purple Rain" and other hits from the best-selling Warner Bros. Records soundtrack album of the same name.
Hailed by Newsweek as "the new Prince of Hollywood," PRINCE and PURPLE RAIN will reign over rockdom for some time to come.