Purple Rain
111 minutes,
USA (1984), 15
A battle of the bands in the Minneapolis scene of the mid-1980s that springs out of the many personalities, musical styles and fantasies of Prince
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Purple Rain: As rock movies go, Purple Rain has dated extremely well. For a start, the music remains stunning, a deliberate hybrid of crunching funk and rock riffs topped off with one of the finest lighters-aloft anthems of all time, 'Purple Rain'. The opening sequence, cut to an extended version of 'Let's Go Crazy', sees aspiring singer Apollonia (Kotero) arrive in Minneapolis in search of work...
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