Graffiti Bridge
The film follows the conflict between The Kid and Morris who are still competitors and each runs a club of his own, as they struggle over the future of a nightclub and the love of an angelic woman.
24 November 1956, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
18 August 1982, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
12 November 1976, Dallas, Texas, USA
13 December 1957, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
October 15, 2016
He abandons even the semi-realism of 'Purple Rain' for something closer to a good, old-fashioned, backlot musical - something we get even less of these days, so enjoy the novelty.
April 22, 2016
There is some plot, but it is wispy at best and frequently gets in the way of the music.
April 22, 2016
Technically, the film is a compendium of stale MTV gimmicks -- dry ice, stylized sets. It's a neo-Expressionist tempest in a teapot.
April 22, 2016
As a film director, Prince remains a brilliant musician.
April 22, 2016
If, as has been reported, Graffiti Bridge is Prince's homage to the heyday of Hollywood musicals, he should have hired a director who looks at film as more than an extended music video.
April 22, 2016
With his doe eyes, sensitive face and amazing openness, he might even have the makings of a whole new kind of movie star. But if Prince is ever going to be that, he must find some decent behind-the-camera collaborators.
September 07, 2011
Prince has had his follies, but never has he been associated with an album or film as lackluster as this one.
April 22, 2016
The movie suffers from various technical difficulties -- like choppy editing and songs that get cut off mid-groove -- and in the end everything collapses in a heap.
October 08, 2016
Visually unappealing and inane at every turn, this one's the absolute pits.
April 22, 2016
Prince follows his disastrous Under the Cherry Moon with another lame film.
April 22, 2016
Hardcore Prince fans might revel in His Royal Purpleness' muted philisopical musings, but everyone else will likely find this film an overblown bore.
