OK, so I was reading about this movie that Prince made called "Hard Life". I believe it was around the time Prince was heavily involved with Madhouse and stuff. From what I understand, Miles Davis, as well as Prince's other colleagues (Eric Leeds, Jill Jones, Brooks, Safford, etc.) were in it too. And Prince even had Madhouse provide the soundtrack. So whatever happened to this movie?

Will Prince ever release it or shall it forever be confined to his vault like his many other homemade projects?

in the vault?

i doubt it will ever be released, but it would be fun if it were. i don't remember miles being in it, though prince's dad was in it. you can find this circulating around in the purple underground - it's really not a great little film, but it's interesting to see all the princely proteges acting goofy. plus it's the only filmed recording of madhouse that i'm aware of.

I never heared of this movie

But I really, really liked the Madhouse-period...anyone saw them when they were the support act and they wore those monk habits (sp?)?

I loved it

MinneapolisFunk said:

Out of the Vault, and circulating widely for years now!

hehe, i have this on cd-rom...haven't watched it in forever, tho'. dr. fink's mama beatin folks up, p's daddy playin pool, and brooks n'safford in all their goony glory.

misdirected by prince...indeed.

It's got this weird John Waters vibe to it.

BinaryJustin said:

Who's John Waters?


I suck at this kind of discussions

AndGodCreatedMe said:

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Seen this once a ways back. I thought it was pretty cool -- loved the whole Madhouse theme and music. Was this meant to be released?

AndGodCreatedMe said:

You've heard of the movie/play "Hairspray", right? John Waters wrote and directed the movie - he also played the psychiatrist with the hypnosis stick who tries to "cure" that girl of dating a black guy, and says "think of all the nice white boys in the world...and how much you'd like to date one!"

Anxiety said:

i was just about to call you in to this thread...

Hopefully it's buried in the vault. You didn't miss a damn thing.

imagine "under the cherry moon", set at paisley park, in color, starring the Squirrelmeat Kids from the SOTT tour instead of prince and jerome.

it's cool to see just to check out footage of madhouse and p's dad, and it's nice to see jill jones doing something more than pouting at prince in the background, but it's not one of those things you wanna watch over and over again.

I would sure love to see this. Oh yeah, and it wasn't Miles that was in the flick, it was Prince's dad.

[can't ask for it, sorry!--Dansa]

I just turned the channel to this movie called "Delirious" and prince was singing it. I thought it was a movie about him, but uh no.

NWF said:

No justice, man, no justice.

NWF said:

It was posted about a month ago at the you-know-what.