A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.
Leave your thoughts about Purple Rain.
| Washington PostGary ArnoldCatharsis on the cheap; there's no reason to accept the pretense that the hero has suffered much and changed for the better unless you're predisposed to get swoony over Prince himself. |
| Film4Matthew De AbaituaAwesome musical performances and an enthusiastic if largely amateur cast make this more than just rock history. |
| sbs.com.auAlexandra Heller-NicholasThe film is a love letter to collaboration, to passion, and to the power of music: this is Prince's legacy, brought to life nowhere more memorably than in Purple Rain. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe film is like East of Eden replayed as a hyperbolic rock fever dream. There are a few sour, juvenile moments, but this is the rare pop movie that works the way a great rock & roll song does: It tells a simple, almost elemental tale and uses the music to set it aflame. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe performers have a bit of a wink behind their performances, and so the artificiality meshes together neatly. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeSensitive and highly visual, this Albert Magnoli-directed film is an accomplished and sophisticated example of storytelling. Even those who aren’t Prince fans are likely to be captivated by its energy, enamored with its simple, often poignant storyline. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFresh music and silly dialogue - those aspects of Purple Rain haven't changed over the years. [Review of re-release] |
| Monthly Film BulletinCynthia RoseAs a debut and a savvy statement of personal enterprise, Purple Rain is quite an accomplishment. As a film, moreover, it is precisely the sort of vehicle one would have wished for Elvis in his Hollywood heyday. |
| Old School ReviewsJohn A. Nesbitworth a rental for the curious and is a keeper for his fans |
| Slant MagazineEric HendersonMagnoli’s professional, downright neorealistic approach to filming the concert clips almost disguises how audacious a structural conceit is the film’s climax: nearly a half-hour of musical numbers that render the solipsism of Prince’s vanity project entirely justifiable. |
