How does a movie starring Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel, Lisa Kudrow, Patrick Swayze and Ray Liotta go straight to DVD? That is apparently the case for “Powder Blue,” which hits the DVD shelves May 26th, roughly 20 months after filming wrapped and without ever seeing a legit theatrical release. So what happened? All we really have in way of explanation is the film itself. “Powder Blue” weaves a web of several loosely connected storylines in the same style as “Crash” or “Magnolia.” The holidays draw near, and four LA residents close in on personal crises as well. Rose Johnny (Biel) strips to pay the medical bills of her comatose 7 year old son. She also appears to have a coke problem, though to what extent remains unclear. Somewhere across town, Charlie (Whitaker) offers strangers $50,000 cash to shoot him “in the heart.” He’s desperate and in pain but, as the film quickly explains, is a religious man and can’t risk killing himself for fear of eternal hellfire. Elsewhere, scrawny Qwerty Doolittle (Eddie Redmayne) receives a rejection on his loan as his father ran up some bad debt for their mortuary business. He’s never had a real girlfriend, and when he attempts to attend a dating function, he passes out from nerves. Jack Doheny (Liotta) is an ex-con dying of cancer. Allegedly, he’s “just passing through” town, though we know right away that something more is going on. [...]