
In Reno, the former successful trumpet player Nate Poole has a one night stand with the wife of the powerful and ruthless mobster Happy Shannon and one of his gangsters abducts Nate to kill him in the desert. Out of the blue, Nate is saved by Indians and he walks through the desert until he reaches a side show owned by Sam Adamo. Nate asks if Sam has a telephone to make a phone call to his friend Harriet, but he sees a beautiful woman with wings called Lily Luster and he asks... (Full plot summary below)
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In Reno, the former successful trumpet player Nate Poole has a one night stand with the wife of the powerful and ruthless mobster Happy Shannon and one of his gangsters abducts Nate to kill him in the desert. Out of the blue, Nate is saved by Indians and he walks through the desert until he reaches a side show owned by Sam Adamo. Nate asks if Sam has a telephone to make a phone call to his friend Harriet, but he sees a beautiful woman with wings called Lily Luster and he asks a drink to her. Then he invites Lily to move with him to Reno. However Sam kidnaps Nate to kill him with a snake, but Lily rescues Nate with a truck and they head to Reno. Nate plots a scheme to raise some money, offering Lily to Happy. Along their journey back to Reno, Nate falls in love with her and he decides to call off the agreement with Happy. But the criminal finds Nate's hideout and abducts Lily and keeps the angel with him. Neverthless Nate is decided to rescue Lily from Hàppy's fortress.
Leave your thoughts about Passion Play.
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyGraham Parker once said, "passion is no ordinary word." Here it's worth less than dirt. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonPeculiarly bad. It's one of those total misfires that wanders so far off the track that you're left scratching your head. |
| Ebert Presents At The MoviesIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe very definition of a cinematic curiosity: a movie that seems almost too strange to exist. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerBlack Swan meets Water For Elephants, sort of. And is Mickey Rourke's male cougar character's obsession with his leading lady's wings in this post-mortem noir, possibly suspect intimations of either bestiality or necrophilia? Who cares. |
| New York PostKyle SmithEven when scary, Murray is somehow funny, too, and he steals the show as always. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternEvery now and then a movie's awfulness rises to the level of mystery. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenYou might reasonably assume that any movie starring Mr. Rourke and Mr. Murray would have to have something to recommend it. But aside from a haunting musical interlude, in which Mr. Rourke, with pathetic ineptitude, mimes playing a trumpet, Passion Play is barely palatable. |
| IndiewireEric KohnThe reality is that Passion Play has a few good ideas that simply don't hold together. More of a miscalculation than an outright dud, it takes the form of a wildly surreal western fantasy, something that Chilean madman Alejandro Jodorowsky ("El Topo") could have executed with more rigorous invention. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher Nullso awkwardly assembled, so self-seriously preachy that it's actually exhausting to watch |
| The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettIf the degree of laughter at the wrong moments and the number of walkouts at the Toronto International Film Festival are any indication, the film will appeal only to the most fondly indulgent. |