Passion Play (2010)

An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.

Director:

Mitch Glazer

Writer:

Mitch Glazer (screenplay)

Stars:

Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox, Bill Murray

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mickey Rourke	...	Nate Poole
Megan Fox	...	Lily Luster
Bill Murray	...	Happy Shannon
Kelly Lynch	...	Harriet
Rhys Ifans	...	Sam Adamo
Chris Browning	...	Cecil
Mark Sivertsen	...	Walt (Man #2)
Rory Cochrane	...	Rickey
Frank Bond	...	Man #1 (With Walt)
Arron Shiver	...	Russell
Lora Martinez-Cunningham	...	Nurse Kohl (as Lora Cunningham)
Robert Wisdom	...	Malcolm
Liezl Carstens	...	April
Alex Essoe	...	Audrey (as Alexandra Essoe)
Brian Doyle-Murray	...	Billy Berg

Storyline

In Reno, the former successful trumpet player Nate Poole has a one night stand with the wife of the powerful and ruthless mobster Happy Shannon and one of his gangsters abducts Nate to kill him in the desert. Out of the blue, Nate is saved by Indians and he walks through the desert until he reaches a side show owned by Sam Adamo. Nate asks if Sam has a telephone to make a phone call to his friend Harriet, but he sees a beautiful woman with wings called Lily Luster and he asks a drink to her. Then he invites Lily to move with him to Reno. However Sam kidnaps Nate to kill him with a snake, but Lily rescues Nate with a truck and they head to Reno. Nate plots a scheme to raise some money, offering Lily to Happy. Along their journey back to Reno, Nate falls in love with her and he decides to call off the agreement with Happy. But the criminal finds Nate's hideout and abducts Lily and keeps the angel with him. Neverthless Nate is decided to rescue Lily from Hàppy's fortress.

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Plot Keywords:

angel | gangster | knife held to throat | musician | carnival | 

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Taglines:

Love Is Stronger Than Death

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, some sexuality/nudity, violence and brief drug use

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2011 (Brazil)

Also Known As:

Ihtiras Oyunu

Filming Locations:

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$8,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Annapurna Productions, Rebecca Wang Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Toby Kebbell was cast as Happy Shannon, but dropped out and Bill Murray replaced him.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Nate: Hey, Billy?

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Connections

Featured in Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episode #1.16 (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Dehlia"
Aaron Neville - Vocals
Allen Toussaint - Piano
Christian McBride - Upright Bass
Christian Scott - Trumpet
Kendrick Scott - Drums
Produced by Joe Henry
Recorded at Avatar Studios, NYC, January 2010

User Reviews

A nice find

How is it that I never heard of this one? A fine movie... Megan Fox CAN act after all and many times I had claimed the opposite. Even though this movie was quite predictable, IMHO, it was still a great watch and we were spared the over-the-top violence that so many other lesser movies rely upon. The only murky part of the film was the whole sequence when Nate hooked up with that over-Inked junkie but I don't want to come too close to Spoiling. I mean I understood what and why it all went down but still... I haven't done a review here in eons but I saw the 4.5 rating for this and felt compelled to get people to give this a shot, well worth it. FWIW, also felt Mickey was the perfect Nate... not sure Bill M was a great Happy but not terrible either. BTW

• MFox is only semi-nude but gorgeous as ever.