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Black Rainbow Details

1989 DVD Certificate 15.gif
  • Rated:
  • 50
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Rosanna Arquette plays Martha Travis, a spiritual medium who travels America's Bible-Belt with her manipulative, alcoholic father (Jason Robards). She all-too accurately foretells the circumstances of a violent murder, even before it happens. In fact, Martha knows too much for her own good, she is soon forseeing the death of .. Read more

Starring Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce, John Bennes
Director Mike Hodges
Genres Thriller

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Black Rainbow

Rosanna Arquette plays Martha Travis, a spiritual medium who travels America's Bible-Belt with her manipulative, alcoholic father (Jason Robards). She all-too accurately foretells the circumstances of a violent murder, even before it happens. In fact, Martha knows too much for her own good, she is soon forseeing the death of her own father...

Starring Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce, John Bennes, Mark Joy
Director Mike Hodges
Studio ANCHOR BAY HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 38 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Thriller
Language English
Released DVD: 26 Apr 2006
Production year: 1989
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of Black Rainbow

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Achieving a ring of truth very few fantasies ever aspire to, Mike Hodges's most personal movie is an intriguing psychic thriller containing numerous eerie surprises. One of the main shocks is Rosanna Arquette, in her finest role to date, as the Doris Stokes-type medium who can plug into the link between this world and the spiritual one — the “black rainbow” of the title. And when she successfully predicts a murder, the unusual scene is set for a clairvoyant cat-and-mouse chase through uncharted suspense territory.

    • Radio Times
  • Spiritualist Martha Travis (Arquette) puts the recently bereaved in touch with their loved ones, reassuring them of a... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Little known gem!

    A supernatural thriller from the late eighties.jason Robards and Rosanna Arquette star as a father and his clairvoyant daughter as they travel around the midwest of American conducting spiritualist meetings.

    A surprisingly dark and affecting film that M.Night Shamaylan would be proud of!

    Give it a screeing.You wont be disappointed!

      • Chris Noone from Manchester, England
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Little known gem!

    A supernatural thriller from the late eighties.jason Robards and Rosanna Arquette star as a father and his clairvoyant daughter as they travel around the midwest of American conducting spiritualist meetings.

    A surprisingly dark and affecting film that M.Night Shamaylan would be proud of!

    Give it a screeing.You wont be disappointed!

      • Chris Noone from Manchester, England
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    • Black Rainbow
      Rosanna Arquette plays Martha Travis, a spiritual medium who travels America's Bible-Belt with her manipulative, alcoholic father (Jason Robards). She all-too accurately foretells the circumstances of a violent murder, even before it happens. In fact, Martha knows too much for her own good, she is ...