Powder Blue (film)

Powder Blue is a 2009 American drama film with an ensemble cast featuring several interconnected story arcs.

It was written and directed by Timothy Linh Bui, and features Patrick Swayze's last film role before his death in September that same year.

He owns a sleazy strip club where Rose-Johnny, a single mother whose young son is in a coma, dances.

According to Variety magazine, "the heartstring-pulling contrivances of the film, set during Christmastime, go way over the top... Biel often overacts even more than her role requires".

[1] The magazine calls director Bui's "trumpeting of the power of love in the city of lonely hearts ... both ear-splittingly loud and tone-deaf at the same time" with "Jonathan Sela's color palette of nightmarish reds and blues and blinding whites, simply enforc[ing] the pic's borderline hysteria".