My Year of Flops Case File No. 101: Graffiti Bridge

April 9, 2008 / Add comment

Prince's first film, Purple Rain, was a blockbuster success that solidified his position as a titan of music and marketing. Yet its sequel, 1990's Graffiti Bridge, is an almost-forgotten commercial disaster. Rabin turns his insightful eye to this piece of pop-culture flotsam and determines that the problem is simply too much Prince -- he wrote, directed, and starred in the picture, turning it into a vanity project fueled by his "soft-headed spiritual concerns." Although many of Rabin's jokes miss their mark, the article is a spot-on evisceration of a justly forgotten fiasco.