Lady Purple (also known as Power Rangers Universe: Lady Purple) is an American superhero science fiction thriller directed by Kimberly Peirce and written by John Gatins. It stars India Eisley as Lady Purple, alongside AJ Michalka, Courteney Cox, David Tennant and Joaquin Phoenix. In Lady Purple, social outcast Darcy gains psychic powers which plans to use them to save the world.
After the third Power Rangers movie, Franchise creator Haim Saban returned to produce the film under his investment firm to make this film a spin-off of the franchise and make it set in between Lightspeed Rescue and Time Force.
The film's dedicated to
Luke Perry
1966 - 2019
Plot
Synopsis
The film tells the story of Lorcan Darcy, a lesbian and social outcast at her high school, where she is constantly bullied by her peers led by her schoolmate named Eliot. She has a crush on a popular girl named Lucy Baine, who has a same feelings for her. When Lucy spot a mysterious cube at the antique store and decided to buy it for Lorcan as a gift. It grants both of them supernatual powers. Now they must team up to take down the Highly Criminal Organization for justice for torturing them.
Main Plot
Cast
- India Eisley as Lorcan Darcy/Lady Purple, A lesbian who's a social outcast at her high school. She kills the Highly Criminal Organization as revenge for torturing her and murdered her twin brother, She falls in love with Lucy.
- AJ Michalka as Lucy Baine/ Lucky Babe, A Popular girl whose older brother works for the Organization, which she against. She falls in love with Lorcan.
- Hayley Orrantia as Emmy Appleton, Lucy's best friend who was Lorcan's roommate at the organization. Unlike the other kids who are mean to her, she is very friendly to her.
- Camilia Mendes as Kimmy Baine, Lucy's sister and one of Lorcan's friends. She is openly bisexual.
- Courteney Cox as Helga, the leader of the Highly Criminal Organization who tortures and sexually abuses Lorcan when she was ten. She is the arch nemesis of both Lorcan and Lucy.
- John C. MacDonald as Jake Thompson, Lorcan's best friend and hopeless admirer who revealed to be an unstable stalker who obsessed with her.
- Charlie McDermott as Eliot, Lorcan's enemy and bully. Until he discovers that she knows Helga. He becomes her ally to take her down.
- Jacob Tremblay as Cillian Darcy, Lorcan's older twin brother who died after being shot by Helga when she was ten.
- Lochlyn Munro as Peter Darcy, Cillian and Lorcan's abusive father who thinks that giving birth to Lorcan is a accident.
- Mädchen Amick as Molly Darcy, Cillian and Lorcan's abusive mother who's homophobic.
- Rachel Matthews as Vanessa
- Joaquin Phoenix as Officer Mike Marsh, Lorcan's adopted father and Jessica's husband.
- Michelle Williams as Jessica Marsh, Lorcan's adopted mother and Mike's wife.
Additionally, Jenny Slate portrays as Lorcan's social worker Emily Campbell, Aubrey Plaza portrays Auntie Molly Darcy, Ciara Hanna appears in the mid credits scene as Gia Moran, the Megaforce/Super Megaforce Yellow Ranger with Jason David Frank as Tommy Oliver, the Mighty Morphin Green Ranger, while Luke Perry appears in a posthumous cameo, as a dogwalker who gives Lorcan some advice.
Production
Quotes
Trivia
- It was 128 minutes long.
- The film is rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, language throughout, thematic elements and brief violence.
- Luke Perry makes a posthumous cameo due to his death on March 4th.
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