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	Encyclopedia: Purple Rain (movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Purple Rain is a 1984 movie directed by Albert Magnoli and written by him and William Blinn.
		The movie is tied in to the album of the same name, which spawned three chart-topping singles: the opening number "Let's Go Crazy," "Purple Rain," and "When Doves Cry." Much of the movie's cinematography, by Donald Thorin, is closer to that of 1980s music videos than conventional film.
		The movie idea was apparently developed by Prince during his Triple Threat tour.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Purple-Rain-(movie) (299 words)

	Purple Rain (movie): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Purple Rain (movie)
		The movie stars Prince and is very clearly developed around him and his particular talents.
		The movie opens with "Let's Get Crazy" and Prince's music is almost constantly playing, the movie is closely linked to the album of the same name and includes the chart-topping single "When Doves Cry".
		The movie was nominated for and won an Academy Award for Original Music Score.
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	PRINCE IN PRINT
		The first half of Purple Rain is much influenced by the peculiar rhythms and angles and cuts of run-of-the-mill MTV, but it also seems to be about something.
		The movie then provides a rationale for The Kid's troubles, in time-honored rock-saga fashion: His home life is miserable, his macho pose has been shaken by the arrival of Apollonia, a lovely young singer, and his pride is taking a beating.
		And from that point on, Purple Rain is improbably successful at tugging on the heartstrings as well as shaking the rafters.
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	Purple Rain (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Purple Rain the 73rd greatest album of all time; in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 18.
		It was also the first appearance in Prince's band "The Revolution" by Wendy Melvoin, his guitarist in the Purple Rain film and for a few years afterwards.
		Purple Rain also won an Oscar for Best Original Score in 1985.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Purple_Rain_(album) (360 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Purple Rain: 20th Anniversary Edition
		Purple Rain is the first true "rock musical"—a film in which the music is inspired by, and serves to advance, the plot and theme of the film (as with a traditional musical, e.g.
		Purple Rain was also the first film to take the working concepts and styles of the then-new music video field onto the big screen.
		And in the case of Purple Rain, the answer is a resounding "yes." Flaws notwithstanding, this 20th Anniversary set is a quality release for a significant film.
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	Purple Rain Movie with Prince, Apollonia Kotero @ The 80's Movies Rewind -- Home of 80s Movies
		Purple Rain is truly an 80's classic and definitly one of the greatest movies ever which starred an actual performer.
		Apollonia was actually married at the time of Purple Rain, but was sworn to secrecy about it so that people would really think she and Prince were a couple.
		The two movies "Purple Rain" was competing against were the Willie Nelson musical drama "Songwriter" and the 3rd Muppet movie, "The Muppets Take Manhattan".
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	Purple Rain (movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Purple Rain is a 1984 (A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement) movie directed by Albert Magnoli and written by him and William Blinn.
		Prince plays "The Kid", an aspiring (Largest city in Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river; noted for flour mills; one of the Twin Cities) Minneapolis musician with a difficult home life.
		The movie won an (Click link for more info and facts about Academy Award for Original Music Score) Academy Award for Original Music Score.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Purple Rain at Epinions.com
		Though I was disappointed 2 discover that the movie itself features no scenes of a naked, smoldering Prince emerging from a bathtub and crawling across a flower-strewn floor (and, even worse, tries 2 shoehorn acting and a story into what should essentially be just a concert film), I was enthralled anyway.
		When Appollonia and her band (the trio is implausibly named "Appollonia 6"; I assume we're meant 2 count the number of jiggling breasts on display) take the stage 4 a showcase performance, they achieve a level of tawdriness that feels incomplete, if only 4 the absence of a stripper's pole.
		'Purple Rain' is a monster, an epic rumination on taking the blame 4 a lost love, and longing 4 that elusive utopian romance.
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	Purple Rain Movie Review
		"Purple Rain" is a story of overcoming failures, learning about the human condition and truly believing in your gift and fighting for it every second you can.
		The soul of the movie, the story, is the music, and it speaks with much passion, both in the positive and negative sense.
		"Purple Rain" is pure Prince at one of his most electrifying times.
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	Purple Rain DVD review on AudioRevolution.com
		Directed by Albert Magnoli, written by Magnoli and William Blinn and, most crucially, starring Prince, "Purple Rain" pauses for naturalistic spoken dialogue in places, but at its heart, it is a mega-video, here to move us more by power of music and performance than through traditional filmic storytelling.
		In this instance, however, there’s a case to be made that it may indeed be the fault of the DVD and not the equipment.
		"Purple Rain" is enjoyable on its own terms and as a time capsule of the state of the ‘80s rock musical.
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	Purple Rain
		This is a fine example of that period that basically ran from the middle of 1999 to the middle of 2000, when there was evidence of a slow return to some quality in the releases.
		And, one of the reasons that this was pulled out for review is the fact that I had just had the chance to replace the original crappy snapper case with a nice new transparent Amaray case and a free replacement slick from Warners.
		As a film Purple Rain is no great shake but as a music video it is as good as it gets.
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	Purple Rain Movie Search
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		Movies like Purple Rain may be good for a break from life, but burning excess energy by cleaning the house or taking a walk will leave you in a better state of mind.
		Then when you are ready to relax, Purple Rain will be there waiting for you.
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	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Purple Rain: 20th Anniversary Edition
		And all of this is difficult to comprehend because the film Purple Rain, devoid of its concert scenes, is a less-than-brilliant iteration of the tortured artist melodrama that evades ridicule due only to its searing, autobiographical nature.
		As Purple Rain builds to its inevitable onstage triumph, interest is maintained solely by virtue of its blessedly numerous musical performances.
		Objective discrimination prohibits declaring Purple Rain as a truly great film, but the trick to embracing it as a legitimately essential work in spite of its many flaws is to resist categorizing it as a love story and, rather, view it as an honest, if ugly, confessional for the tortured creative temperament.
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	PURPLE RAIN (TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION); UNDER THE CHERRY MOON; GRAFFITI BRIDGE - DVDs
		Between its point-and-shoot aesthetic, laboured naturalism, and story-driven tunes, Purple Rain practically begs consideration as the last blaxploitation movie; it's hard to imagine something so unfashionable earning so much money in 1984, though back then I suppose it just seemed like the latest extracurricular activity for MTV junkies.
		Undeniably compelling in its tawdriness, Purple Rain nevertheless shares a trump card--its set list--with casual Prince fans, who are advised to reach for the soundtrack album instead.
		Each member of The Revolution resurfaces to honour their former bandleader in "Purple Rain: Backstage Pass" (30 mins.), an oral history of the production proper wherein Magnoli, a hairdresser type, goes on a crying jag as soon as he recalls Prince's on-screen heart-to-heart with Williams.
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	No Commercial Potential :: Sweep the leg, Marshall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Whether he himself realized that this was beyond his scope or the backers did, it's more wisdom than Master P ever was privy to.
		But really, it's a much better movie than, conceptually, it had any right to be.
		In summary: 8 Mile is not, as some have remarked, the rap version of Purple Rain.
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	frida-review.html
		The title of the movie refers to the street in Detroit that divides the fl inner city from the white suburbs.
		In the movie, he is a fairly typical slacker youth, barely holding onto a job or a girlfriend and hanging with his friends.
		The plot is set up in the first scene of the movie when Eminem fails miserably in a Rap equivalent of the Battle of the Bands at a Detroit club where he is the only white guy for miles around.
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	Purple Rain - Movie Tome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Prince's finest hour came with this blockbuster hit movie and album of the same name.
		A touching moment is when Prince performs the title song as a tribute to his father and gets the whole club's attention as they sway and wave their hands to the haunting melody.
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	Purple Rain DVD > Compare Prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Prince's dazzling and dynamic Purple Rain (movie and soundtrack album) and the hypnotic hit single "When Doves Cry" exploded onto the pop-culture scene in 1984, it seemed there was nothing the purple one couldn't do.
		The film is basically a feature-length music video, but no musician has ever had a better big-screen showcase for his many talents.
		Purple Rain is an essential artifact of the mid-'80s pop Zeitgeist.
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	RollingDoughnut.com: Like a fine wine, wait 20 years, then enjoy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Last night, I was nostalgic enough for 1984 to enjoy the movie but smart enough to know how bad it is. Terrible acting, a ridiculous plot made worse by sloppy editing, and an oiled-up Prince aren't a good mix.
		I fear I may never be able to listen to the Purple Rain soundtrack again without imagining the fictitious cinematic stories behind the songs.
		It was horrible, but I loved that little white dove of a movie with a love that never dies.
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	sing me spanish techno.
		I opened the paper, turned to the entertainment part, and when I read the double-page ads for new releases I felt a thrill in my soul, so many wonderful movies, the critics were amazed, according to the testimonials.
		The impression dawned that we'd entered a dazzling era - this week, this single week, would glow in racial memory - and I shared it all, was in fact dazzled, you know how I respond to those ads and feel cheated later in the dark by all the fakery.
		This was hyped to me as the Most Disturbing Movie Ever, so I went into it with the attitude of "Fuck you, movie, you will not frighten me," and as a result it didn't do as much as it probably should have.
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	Purple Rain movie info - dvds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To make it short, I didn't know what to expect from "Purple Rain," (the movie), but since I did like some of Prince's music, I went ahead and watched it.
		Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Purple Rain and Prince 's (the artist) music, but this DVD was kind of disappointing.
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	Purple Rain
		Purple Rain (1984) was requested by a longtime reader.
		means the movie is so good it will appeal to you even if you hate the genre.
		means the movie is not good enough to win you over if you hate the genre, but is good enough to do so if you have an open mind about this type of film.
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	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Purple Rain : Main
		Purple Rain, the first starring film for Prince, is the story of an arrogant, young fl...
		Purple Rain, the first starring film for Prince, is the story of an arrogant, young fl singer, born and raised in Minneapolis, who reaches the pinnacle of stardom.
		Purple Rain [20th Anniversary Special Edition] [2 Discs]
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	Purple Rain Movie
		I was in college during the time that "Purple Rain" wahsed Michealmania (Jackson, that is) to the side for a while in 1984.
		The MTV movie premire footage (also from 1984) is quite bizarre, with a young Eddie Murphy and a middle-aged Little Richard saying "Prince is me in this generation."
		Prince is one of the most talented musicians of our time.....I love him and he was superb in Purple Rain.......Great songs great music.....Great everything.
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	Prince
		Purple Rain - Around The World In A Day - Parade - Sign O' The Times - Black Album -
		Just so Purple Rain fans wouldn't be totally lost, there is some hard rock ("Paisley Park"), political pap ("America"), uplifting spirituality ("The Ladder"), and crotch-level spirituality ("Temptation," which marks Prince's first use of sax).
		There are problems, though: "1+1+1 Is 3" is an inferior remake of "Erotic City"; the minute-long "Wedding Feast" is absurd light opera; "She Loves Me 4 Me" is as trite as the title implies; the opening of "Family Name" relies way too heavily on computer-generated vocals.
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	Purple Rain (1984) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		What was good-'Let's Go Crazy/'Purple Rain' very well done, dynamic concert sequences, certainly Prince knew the stage/concert scene in Minn very well.
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	Rockpalast Archiv 15.Rocknight english
		In different ways, they meet the demand that rock music is judged to be it's best if the performer succeeds in bringing a story to the point within three verses, one refrain and all that within three and a half minutes.
		In the meantime, tours are made up of series of concerts lasting many days in the biggest halls in the respective cities; the live performances are met with many-minutes-long standing ovations from the audience.
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	Intertech Private Cable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Purple Rain (10:05pm, ENC), the 1984 vehicle that made Price a household name and won him an Oscar for best musical score.
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		Typical of any Eastwood-directed movie, the cinematography is wonderful and the pace slow but steady.
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	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Manhattan
		His signature style produces movies set in Manhattan, mixed and released in monaural sound, with beginning and ending credits set in white on fl with jazz playing in the background.
		Instead of making the movies we expect him to, Allen stubbornly makes the movies he wants to make, gathering his A-list casts for minor exercises in whimsy and bile that tend not to be appreciated when they arrive in theaters.
		When he was a child, his divorced mother, a keen Woody Allen fan, took him to the movies on a weekly basis, and it was with her that he first saw Annie Hall, Allen's semi-autobiographical account of a failed relationship between two overwrought Manhattan misfits, released in 1977.
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	VH1.com : News : Movie Wrap-Up: Harry Potter, Fahrenheit 9/11, Purple Rain
		The Potter cast and crew are currently at work on the fourth movie in the series, while Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is in theaters today.
		The movie looks set to be another smash hit, having already broken box office records in Britain by taking over $9 million dollars in its first day of release.
		Prince's directorial debut, Under the Cherry Moon, and the sequel to Purple Rain, Graffiti Bridge, will also be released on DVD the same day.
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