Forty Shades of Blue

Wealthy music producer Alan James (Rip Torn) lives with his beautiful Russian girlfriend Laura (Dina Korzun), thirty years younger than him, whom he met while he was in Russia on business. They have a three-year-old son. Alan is a music legend, having produced black music during the 60's and 70's, the golden era of Memphis Soul. They live an affluent life in a sprawling mansion on the banks of the Mississippi in Memphis, Tennessee. But, although she is comfortable, Laura feels lonely and isolated. Alan has an estranged adult son from a previous marriage, Michael (Darren E. Burrows), a literature professor, who is married and lives with his wife in Los Angeles. Michael and his father have a complicated relationship that is marred by disappointment, hampered by jealousy, and fueled by anger. When Michael returns home to Memphis for the first time in many years, although he had at first disapproved of his father's young girlfriend, a painful and dangerous love affair develops between him and Laura, his contemporary. As this forbidden and incestuous passion deepens in the bedrooms and bars of modern Memphis, Laura comes to an illuminating self-confrontation that will change her soul and her life forever.

Director: Ira Sachs
Producer: Donald Rosenfeld
Producer: Ira Sachs
Producer: Jawal Nga
Producer: Margot Bridger
Producer: Mary Bing
Actor: Elizabeth Morton
Actor: Rip Torn
Actor: Dina Korzun
Actor: Darren E. Burrows
Actor: Paprika Steen
Actor: Jim Dickinson
Actor: Sid Selvidge
Actor: Red West
Actor: Arielle Kight
Actor: Charles Skip Pitts
Actor: Charly Kayle
Actor: Don Pirl
Actor: Earl Randle
Actor: J. Alan Scott
Actor: Liz Morton
Actor: Mary Jean McAdams
Actor: Stuart Greer
Actor: J. Blackfoot
Actor: Jenny O'Hara
Actor: Jerry Chipman
Actor: Andrew Henderson
Actor: Joanne Pankow