Passing Strange August 21, 2008

With a score that has some of the most tuneful, soulful rock songs and witty, thought-provoking lyrics in recent memory, 'Passing Strange' is the moving and hilarious story of a young black bohemian on a journey of escape and exploration that takes him from his middle-class, church-reared youth in South Central L.A. to the drug-laced world of sex in Amsterdam to the art and anarchism of Berlin -- with a bevy of eye-opening experiences and life lessons along the way.