Powder Blue [Blu-ray] | ![Powder Blue [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513p5f9-zyL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Timothy Linh Bui
Actors: Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, Patrick Swayze, Lisa Kudrow
Studio: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Category: DVD
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 6978
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: BSF6149BD
UPC: 014381614954
EAN: 0014381614954
ASIN: B001URA5YI
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: May 26, 2009
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| • | On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide. Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker and Eddie Redmayne lead a top-notch cast in this powerful thriller about an overwhelmed erotic dancer, a grieving husband who has lost his will to live, a terminally ill ex-con and a pathologically shy mortician. With Kris Kristofferson, |
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Product Description
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 9-JUN-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 31
 My other review February 7, 2010
Robert P. Conner (Stephens City, VA United States)
This was one of the worst movies I have paid for, good idea put together wrong. I thought I was ordering Powder but watched it cause I paid for it. I didn't like it very much.
There is Art--then there's artifice January 14, 2010
C. CRADDOCK (Bakersfield)
There's Crash, then there's Powder Blue. Both films feature multiple intertwining characters in Los Angeles, but one won the best picture Oscar, while the other was released straight to video.
There is Magnolia--then there's Powder Blue. One has multiple quirky characters and a hail of frogs, while the other has characters with multiple quirks, and a powder blue snowstorm that blankets Los Angeles.
There's Flashdance--then there's Powder Blue. One has exotic dancers performing artistically choreographed dances, while the other has a dancer with an even more unbelievable and convoluted back-story performing artistically choreographed dances.
There's Being John Malkovich--then there's Powder Blue. One has a main character whose passion is performing with marionettes while the other has a Mortician with Asthma whose passion is performing with marionettes.
There is The Crying Game--then there's Powder Blue. One has Forest Whitaker involved with someone who is kind of a drag while the other has Forest Whitaker as a defrocked priest who left the church to get married but is now despondent over his young bride's untimely passing.
There is Art--then there's artifice.
So, you can see the problem for director Timothy Linh Bui: He has overloaded his film with so many overused clichés and symbols that it ceases to have any meaning whatsoever. He has thrown in everything but the kitchen sink.
I can't in any way shape or form say that this was a successful film, and yet I found it vastly entertaining, if only because it boggled my mind, how far from the path it strayed. I will admit that I enjoyed watching it, but I was forced to judge it harshly.
Jessica Biel looked good and was amazing as the exotic dancer. Her acting wasn't so bad, considering what she had to work with. But not only did she have a father who had just been released from prison after 25 years, she also had a child who was in a coma. On top of that, she has a romance with a mortician named Qwerty Doolittle (the laziest name for a character ever written), who is also loaded down with three too many quirks himself: He has asthma, he plays with puppets, and his mortuary is in foreclosure.
I could go on, but I'm sure you get the picture.
Things I liked though were the chemistry between Whitaker's defrocked priest and Lisa Kudrow's friendly waitress, always ready with a cup of coffee and a slice of pie.
In Savage Grace, Eddie Redmayne was fantastic as the criminally insane Antony Baekeland; but he gave almost as good a performance here.
Alejandro Romero gave good attitude, yet his character was given short shrift. More a symbol than a person. He must have asked himself, just like Burt Reynolds 'playing' a bad actor on The Twilight Zone: What's my motivation?
Ray Liotta was great as the ex hit man/father trying to 'reconnect' with his daughter after a 25-year stint in the pen, but he was sabotaged at every turn. Case in point, he was given full body tattoos, but they were totally wrong for his character. They looked like they'd been chosen by the makeup `artiste' instead of something a prisoner would choose for himself.
Patrick Swayze as Velvet Larry was amazing as he was terminally ill, yet he still gave a very strong performance. This may have been Swayze's swan song, his last ever film role. May he rest in peace.
Savage Grace (2007) Eddie Redmayne was Antony Baekeland
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 [Region 2] (2000) Forest Whitaker was Ker
The Crying Game (1992) Forest Whitaker was Jody
Bird (1988) Forest Whitaker was Charlie 'Bird' Parker
GoodFellas (1990) Ray Liotta was Henry Hill
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar (1995) Patrick Swayze Was Vida
Point Break (1991) Patrick Swayze Was Bodhi
Trouble in Mind (1985) Kris Kristofferson was Hawk
Songwriter (1984) Kris Kristofferson was Blackie Buck
Hotel for Dogs (Widescreen Edition (2009) Lisa Kudrow was Lois Scudder
Nobody puts Baby in a corner
~ Patrick Swayze
 Powder Blue December 21, 2009
Jamison M. Fedie
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie was a story about how lives intertwine. It reminded me very much of the movie Magnolia. All in all it was pretty good and Jessica Biel was great!
 Dull and weird and not worth your time December 15, 2009
GDMF (NY)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
You would think "How bad can this movie be?" Pretty bad is the answer.
The fault is not with the actors, but possible in the script and certainly with the director.
Portions of the story are extremely compelling, but it never really delivers.
 Quantum Christmas Anthology December 11, 2009
A Customer (L.A.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Much better than other "better" Crash-like films. Humble production values are its own strength. Swayze was perfect. Beil is lovely with clothes. Her nudity is part of the film which has a lot to offer in the total product; despite so called 'critical' 'weaknesses'. LA Blue Xmas Redemption film has legs. It may take decades for this movie to be appreciated.
Blu-ray looks and sounds fine.
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