PRINCE: PURPLE RAIN (1984)

Cast

Plot

The wee screechy man makes it to the silver screen in this incredibly melodramatic piece of musical romantic drama. Prince plays a musician with a troubled past. His uneasy relationship with his father and his frustration with his musical ambitions propels him on a self destructive motorbike journey through love, gigs, suicide and a wickle bit of sex. The songs are of course still excellent, with the emotionally pornographic title song never failing to raise the hairs on your neck. But it is played with an incredibly dated 'sincerity' that serves only to humour an audience increasingly uncomfortable with melodrama. Classic eighties pap cinema.