Powder Blue
2009 · Movie · R · 106 min · ★ 6.1 · 30% critics
On Los Angeles’s gritty streets, four struggling lives drift toward one another as each person searches for connection, relief, and a chance to start over. As their paths cross around the holidays, small acts of kindness and hard choices test whether redemption is possible in a world that feels relentlessly bleak.
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Details
- Years
- 2009
- Release date
- 2009-05-08
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Critic score
- 30/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 (254 votes)
About
You may like this if you’re in the mood for a bleak, character-driven drama about loneliness and second chances, with intersecting storylines reminiscent of Crash; Not for you if you want light entertainment or an uplifting, fast-moving plot.
Pros: strong cast performances; emotional, interconnected stories; occasional tender moments | Cons: relentlessly depressing tone; disjointed, slow pacing; uneven, melodramatic writing
Themes
- release from prison
- coffin
- cocaine
- puppeteer
- rose
- strip club
- hospital
- los angeles, california
- lap dance
- unknown father
- church
- mortician
- +7 more
Cast & crew
Jessica Biel
as Rose Johnny
Eddie Redmayne
as Qwerty Doolittle
Forest Whitaker
as Charlie
Ray Liotta
as Jack Doheny
Patrick Swayze
as Velvet Larry
Lisa Kudrow
as Sally
Kris Kristofferson
as Randall
Sanaa Lathan
as Diana
Ravi Patel
as Sanjay
Mandy June Turpin
as Nurse Jenkins
Directed by Timothy Linh Bui