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Powder Blue (2009)

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Average Rating: 3.7/10
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Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, and Jessica Biel topline this ensemble drama regarding intersecting lives on Christmas Eve from writer/director Timothy Linh Bui (Green Dragon). Liotta plays an ex-convict who tracks down his estranged daughter (Biel) after serving a 25-year jail sentence. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 48 min.

Drama

Timothy Linh Bui, Stephane Gauger

May 26, 2009

Speakeasy Releasing

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All Critics (8) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (6) | DVD (1)

Another Los Angeles-set multistrand drama "Crash"-es and burns.

May 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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A movie full of egregiously overdramatic stupidities.

May 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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Patrick Swayze's final feature film role as Wild Velvet strip club boss Velvet Larry is a flamboyant extravaganza

November 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

A serendipitous erotic thriller reminiscent of Crash in the way that lots of Angelenos' lives intersect serendipitously, except that here the characters have a seedy strip club in common instead of car accidents.

June 8, 2009 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

A serendipitous erotic thriller reminiscent of Crash in the way that lots of Angelenos' lives intersect serendipitously, except that here the characters have a seedy strip club in common instead of car accidents.

June 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Sly Fox | Comment
Sly Fox

They seem to be real and they are certainly spectacular--too bad that one can't say the same for the film featuring them.

May 14, 2009 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

an embarrassing display of directorial exploitation and a waste of acting goodwill.

May 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

Few will remember Powder Blue as a desperate copy job of Paul Thomas Anderson's brilliant Magnolia but rather as the film where Jessica Biel finally took it all off.

May 7, 2009 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment (1)
eFilmCritic.com

It's not likely [Biel] is comfortable with her nude scenes (which are neither lengthy nor discreet) being used as a selling point, but Bui fails to provide much else worth discussing.

May 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Metromix.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Powder Blue

"Powder Blue" is the type of movie that everyone would love to hate! Personally, I think it is one of the more overshadowed films that were released in 2009. With many big name B-List actors involved, they really gave it their all to make this film as much as it is. It follows two separate plot lines that never

January 9, 2012
KJ Proulx

Super Reviewer

One of those multi-layered, character films, whose lives overlap in one way or another. It has a fine cast, including Patrick Swayze's last role along side Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker. However it will be more well known for the film where Jessica Biel plays the part of an "exotic dancer" and strips off. It's main theme

December 22, 2007
Deano78

Super Reviewer

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