Purple Rain (film)
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| Directed by | Albert Magnoli |
| Produced by | Robert Cavallo Joseph Ruffalo Steven Fargnoli |
| Written by | Albert Magnoli William Blinn |
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| Music by | Michel Colombier |
| Cinematography | Donald E. Thorin |
| Edited by | Albert Magnoli |
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Purple Films
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7.2 million |
| Box office | $293.7 million |
Purple Rain is a 1984 American rock musical drama film directed by Albert Magnoli, produced by Robert Cavallo, Joseph Ruffalo, and Steven Fargnoli, and written by Magnoli and William Blinn. The film inspired the soundtrack and studio album of the same name.
The film stars Prince in his acting debut, playing a quasi-biographical person called "The Kid." Contrary to what is depicted in the film, both of Prince's parents were black.Purple Rain was developed to showcase his talents and hence contains several extended concert sequences. The film grossed more than US $35 million at the box office in the United States and over 220 million worldwide, thus making a large profit on its $7.2 million budget.Purple Rain is the only feature film that Prince starred in but did not direct.
The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score, currently the last to receive the award, for the soundtrack of the same name. It was nominated for two Razzie Awards: Worst New Star for Apollonia Kotero and Worst Original Song for "Sex Shooter".
A semi-sequel, Graffiti Bridge, was released in 1990.
"The Kid" is the talented but troubled frontman of his Minneapolis-based 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 Avenue's three house band slots are held by The Revolution, the flashy Morris Day and his group The Time, and Dez Dickerson and his group The Modernaires. Morris, aware that The Revolution's guitarist Wendy and keyboardist Lisa are frustrated by the Kid's unwillingness to play their compositions, lobbies Billy Sparks, the nightclub's owner, to replace The Revolution with a girl group which Morris is already forming. He targets the Kid's girlfriend Apollonia – an aspiring singer and new arrival in Minneapolis – to lead his group, and tries to persuade her that the Kid won't help her because he's too focused on himself. She eventually joins Morris's group, which Morris names Apollonia 6. When she reveals her partnership to the Kid, he becomes furious and slaps her, as his father had struck him earlier.
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