Needing to pay the mayor of Seven Corners $10,000, Morris attempts to extort The Kid – by threatening to take full ownership of Glam Slam.

Making matters more interesting is the arrival of Aura, an angel sent from Heaven to sway both Morris and The Kid into leading more righteous lives – while dealing with their attraction to her.

According to Terry Lewis, the film was originally a vehicle for The Time, but "in the end the story got lost and it became a Prince picture.

Despite media hype of it being the sequel to the massively successful Purple Rain, it was a commercial and critical failure and was included on several Worst of 1990 movie lists.

[5] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 36 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[6] However, the corresponding original soundtrack received widespread critical acclaim with glowing reviews from Rolling Stone's Paul Evans,[7] Entertainment Weekly's Greg Sandow,[8] and the Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot, the latter stating that the album was "a sprawling, wildly diffuse statement on love, sin, sex and salvation that ranks with his best work.

"[9] In his review, Evans wrote that Prince ... has mustered a subversive triumph, making records half-brilliant, half-quirky, managing the Minneapolis scene with the ghost hand of a funky Gatsby, deploying an army-harem of disciples and flashing a dazzle of guises unified in their harlequin outrageousness.

[13] The film was released on Blu-ray for the first time on October 4, 2016 separately in a purple case[14] and as part of the Prince Movie Collection.