Purple Rain

A prisoner of his own anger, The Kid is a talented singer who tries to break into music through the club scene with his band The Revolution. He falls for Apollonia, another rising singer, but a rival musician threatens to take everything from him., Autobiographical musical vehicle for Prince, who plays a young and disillusioned Minneapolis musician struggling against a miserable and violent domestic life and attempting to win acceptance for his own brand of funky rock ‘n’ roll. Prince’s Oscar-winning score includes the monster hits ‘When Doves Cry’, ‘I Would Die 4 U’ and ‘Let’s Go Crazy’., Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Clarence Williams III, Jerome Benton. Iconic musical drama which launched Prince’s career. In Minneapolis, Prince plays ‘The Kid’, a talented but troubled young musician eager to make it big. But emotional problems are holding him back, threatening to wreck his relationship with singer Apollonia and his very sense of self. Dir: Albert Magnoli., In this film, an arrogant young black singer, born and raised in Minneapolis, reaches the pinnacle of stardom. The dramatic complications include “The Kid’s” miserable home life — where he suffers the brutalities of his father — and the youth’s efforts to win the love of the beautiful Appolonia., The Kid comes from a broken Minneapolis home but his talent for music and charisma put him on the road to stardom. Semi-autobiographical rock drama featuring Prince and his support band., Rock star Prince reigns supreme in this vanity video chock full of concert clips.