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Or "Under the Cherry Bomb," as some wags referred to it. Look, Purple Rain is a masterpiece: The music, the motorcycle... Morris Day. Rocks Off even tried the "purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka" line on a girl once. It didn't work (probably because we were in Central Texas at the time and not Minnesota), but that doesn't take away from the fact that Cherry Moon ran neck and neck with Howard the Duck on most critics' "worst of" lists in '86. How bad was it? Not even the presence of the Time's Jerome could salvage it.
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Peter Vonder Haar writes movie reviews for the Houston Press and the occasional book. The first three novels in the "Clarke & Clarke Mysteries" - Lucky Town, Point Blank, and Empty Sky - are out now.
