Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel, Patrick Swayze

A mosaic of people desperately search for redemption, human connection, and restored faith within the underbelly of Los Angeles. On the eve of Christmas, four lives will cross paths by past guilt, cha...( read more  read more... )nce, coincidence, and divine intervention. And when morning shed's light, their lives will have been woven together by a miracle where death is the inevitable hope and love is why we choose to live.

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R, 108 min

Directed by: Timothy Linh Bui

Release Date: January 1, 2008

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DVD Release Date: May 26, 2009

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  • August 16, 2009
    It reminded me a lot of Crash, but a little less confusing. It was a dark film, and the cast was pretty good. However, it was not very original.
  • July 20, 2009
    Human drama we've seen many times before in many other forms, just not as far-stretched or lyrically. It's a movie that can move you, but ultimately it adds nothing new and it's deeply flawed. Too many things needed more attention as they were surreal, and many things could have ...( read more)been done differently.

    Forest Whitaker is as good as he always is and I'm guilty to admitting that I actually liked Swayze's performance -an actor I have such contempt for. Jessica Biel is better than some Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but she's still quite talentless. The direction (among other elements) is tolerable, and is overall a movie that attempts to make you sympathetic and pitiful, more than it attempts to rejoice in the power hidden in the human heart.
  • June 27, 2009
    A powerfully intense and emotionally enduring movie. A dark, compelling, beautifully depressing and truly unforgettable film that shines with originality and brilliance. A damn near perfect film thats written terifficly and superbly crafted. A deeply moving and heart-wrenching ch...( read more)aracter piece thats fuelled by an astonishing cast of amasing actors that all do an exceptional and wonderful job with their performances. Forest Whitaker is extroadinary, his best performance since The Last King Of Scottland. Jessica Biel gives an excellent and surprisingly satisfying performance. She not only shows she is a gorgious woman but shows here that she is pure leading lady material. Ray Liotta is incrediable, always knowing how to deliver a powerful and fearless performance.
  • June 19, 2009
    I was actually very surprised about this movie. What a Cast, they were absolutely amazing. Interesting once again how they managed to somehow intertwine all the characters and make it work. They are all sooo talented and some of them actually kinda shocked me taking on that role....( read more) First and foremost Jessica Biel, I can't believe she got naked. But she pulled it off and it wasn't tasteless or vulgar, it fit the story and i was impressed. the Patrick Swayze...really? This is a must see...amazing stories amazing cast!!!!!
  • June 17, 2009
    "Every life has a breaking point"

    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.

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    Four desperate people drift together over Christmas. One a stripper with a little boy in a coma, another is an ex-con who looks for salvation, a mortuary worker faces foreclosure on his business and an ex-priest looks for someone to do a job for him. Well made and very well acted tale has plot lines that are so over done that they border on silly. Talk about stacking the deck, these people have enough going on for five years of soap operas. The cast almost sells the (overly) heartfelt emotion, but its just too much. How much of this would really happen to four people over a couple of days? My interest began to wander about a half an hour in because I felt that the film was manipulating things for no really good reason. I understand why the cast was drawn to the material since it allows them to dig in and chow down on the scenery. Its not a bad movie, its just an over done one.
  • October 27, 2009
    Pretty good movie I gotta say. Great Acting from Jessica Biel and I think this was Patrick Swayze's last movie so it was glad to see him even though his role was less than his usual style.

    Angelenos meet on Christmas Eve through chance, tragedy and divine intervention. Velvet ...( read more)Larry is the sleazy owner of the strip club where Rose Johnny dances. Qwerty Doolittle is a mortician who falls in love with her. Randall is the head of a corporate crime organization who tries to convince a former employee not to seek vengeance on his former co-workers. Charlie is a suicidal ex-priest. Lexus is a transsexual prostitute who shares an unexpected bond with the priest.
  • October 16, 2009
    Great puzzle movie... a great cast and a wonderful story! 8/10
  • October 7, 2009
    Better than I thought it would be, for sure. Worth checking out if you're running low on new releases. :)
  • October 6, 2009
    This is one tangled mess of a story. The plot is so boring, I nearly fell asleep.
  • September 26, 2009
    Slow paced, didn't like the story line. The actors in it are some i really like though

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  • fumanskeeto17
    July 3, 2008
    hey guys, here is a brief summary of the Jessica's new Movie, Powder Blue..(Thanks to IMDB.COM)

    Several Angelenos meet on Christmas Eve through chance, tragedy and divine intervention. Swayze will play the sleazy owner of the strip club where Biel's character dances. Redmayne will portray a mortician who falls in love with her. Kristofferson will play the head of a corporate crime organization who tries to convince his former employee (Liotta) not to seek vengeance on his former co-workers. Whitaker, who also serves as a producer on the film, will play a suicidal ex-priest. Newcomer Alejandro Romero will play a transsexual prostitute who shares an unexpected bond with the priest
  • fumanskeeto17
    July 3, 2008
    I can't wait to see another Jessica Biel here in this film..for me she is very versatile, her role is always breathtaking (well just like her, very sexy)..as i always hope for, i want to see her working with Oscar winners, she did it successfully with Nicholas Cage and now she is doing it again with Forest Withaker..please put some overview of this film(its short summary)..

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