Synopsis
Purple Rain (1984) is a semi-autobiographical music drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Albert Magnoli and built around Prince in his only major acting role. He plays the Kid, an intensely driven Minneapolis musician working the club circuit with his band the Revolution while fighting his way out of a violent home.
His father never made it as a musician and takes that failure out on the family. The Kid risks the same spiral. His rival Morris Day is prettier, more charming, and better at sharing the spotlight — and he's circling Apollonia, the singer the Kid is falling for. The band is about to walk. The film doesn't soften any of it.
Prince took home the Academy Award for Best Original Score here — and the soundtrack, anchored by "When Doves Cry" and "Let's Go Crazy," sold upwards of 25 million copies worldwide. One of those rare cases where a vanity project turned out to be genuinely great. Stream Purple Rain (1984) online on iFILM.
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