Passion Play

Star-studded “passion story” in a crime thriller variation: perhaps the hapless jazz trumpeter Nate Poole (Mickey Rourke) should have kept his hands off the wife of notorious gangster Happy Shannon (Bill Murray). Happy is less than happy about the affair and has his rival sent to the desert. However, Nate escapes execution thanks to an ambush by a group of Indians. From then on, Nate wanders disoriented through the desert. Then the traveling circus of Sam Adamo (Rhys Ifans) appears before him. Sam is putting on a very special attraction: The beautiful Lily (Megan Fox), with wings on her back and the look and demeanor of an angel. Nate is immediately fascinated and flees with the young woman from the wasteland to the big city. There, not only Happy's henchmen but also Sam and his men are on Nate's tail. The only way out seems to be to hand over Lily, for whom Nate has of course long harbored deep feelings... Screenwriter Mitch Glazer (“Great Expectations”) spent 20 years working on his directorial debut and brought a remarkable cast of acting stars on board for his “passion story”, which is bursting with imagination and ideas. Glazer, Rourke and Murray have been friends since their school days at Miami Beach High School. Glazer is in a relationship with Kelly Lynch, who plays Nate's loyal girlfriend Harriet. “Passion Play” is therefore a genuine friendship/family project in which the participants have dared to realize an unusual story that moves between genres.