Passion Play (2011)

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

Release Date: May 6th, 2011

Director: Mitch Glazer

Writers: Mitch Glazer

Actors: Alexandra Essoe, Arron Shiver, Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Chris Browning, Frank Bond, Kelly Lynch, Liezl Carstens, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Mark Sivertsen, Megan Fox, Mickey Rourke, Rhys Ifans, Robert Wisdom, Rory Cochrane

Genre: Drama, Romance

MPAA Rating: R

Official site: Not available

Studio: Image Entertainment

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Passion Play | Synopsis

Nate Poole (Rourke, “The Wrestler,” “Iron Man 2″) is a washed-up jazz musician fleeing from trigger-happy gangster Happy Shannon (Murray, “Lost in Translation”). While on the run, Nate stumbles across a traveling carnival, and is instantly mesmerized by the carnival’s prized attraction, Lily “The Bird Woman” (Fox, “Transformers”). But Lily is no carny fake: her wings are real. The fugitive musician falls in love with this angelic creature, and he convinces her to leave with him, to the anger of her ruthless employer (Ifans, “Notting Hill”). The two flee across the desert, but towards… what? Their destruction? Their salvation?

Combining realism and myth, “Passion Play” is a portrait of humanity at its best and worst. Gritty and hard-boiled, it is also an adult fairytale that promises hope in the most unlikely of places.