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Trapped in a Purple Haze is a american film of genre Drama directed by Eric Laneuville released in USA on 17 april 2000 with Jonathan Jackson

Trapped in a Purple Haze (2000)

Trapped in a Purple Haze
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Released in USA 17 april 2000
Length 1h30
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating69% 3.4870053.4870053.4870053.4870053.487005

Trapped in a Purple Haze is a TV movie about drug abuse which originally aired on ABC in 2000; its title is a reference to the Jimi Hendrix song Purple Haze. The film starred Jonathan Jackson, JoBeth Williams, and Carly Pope, with a supporting role by Hayden Christensen (who eventually beat Jackson for the part of Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel trilogy).

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Chicago college student Max Hanson (Jackson) is a talented artist and hockey player. Though more interested in the latter, he is under pressure from his mother, Sophie (Williams) to pursue a career in art, influenced by the fact that she put her own career aside to raise the family and has just landed a coveted position with a local art gallery. Max's father, Ed (Colm Feore), is a tax attorney with a more laid-back approach to his son's future, just wanting him to be happy.

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