After a string of incidents, four Los Angelenos - an ex-con, a stripper, an ex-priest, and a mortician - are brought together on a Christmas Eve in a tragedy intervention. The story gradually reveals who they really are, where they are from, and what will they do in that fateful occasion.
Few will remember Powder Blue as a desperate copy job of Paul Thomas Anderson's brilliant Magnolia but rather as the film where Jessica Biel finally took it all off.
A serendipitous erotic thriller reminiscent of Crash in the way that lots of Angelenos' lives intersect serendipitously, except that here the characters have a seedy strip club in common instead of car accidents.
It's not likely [Biel] is comfortable with her nude scenes (which are neither lengthy nor discreet) being used as a selling point, but Bui fails to provide much else worth discussing.
