Black Rainbow details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Mark Joy, Rosanna Arquette, John Bennes, Tom Hulce, Jason Robards |
| Director: | Mike Hodges |
| Genre: | Thriller - Action/Adventure |
| Studio: | ANCHOR BAY HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
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Black Rainbow |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 38 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 26 Apr 2006 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Little known gem!
By Chris Noone from Manchester, England , 27 Oct 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
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!- Was this review helpful to you?
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(11)Rosanna's best
By Dungbeetle (503 reviews) from London , 19 Nov 2009Rosanna Arquette has never been better than in this role able assisteded by Jason Robards who was one of Americas finest supporting actors. The contentious subject matter is deftly played and results in a film worth viewing.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By dolphie (49 reviews) from Sunderland , 27 Aug 2009i quite enjoyed this film, it was quite gripping right until the end, would recomend,- Was this review helpful to you?
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Pointless viewing
By GB from London , 16 Mar 2007I got this film out because it was directed by Mike Hodges, the director of Get Carter and has Jason Robards and Rosanna Arquette starring in it. The film purports to be a supernatural thriller.It is neither. At the beginning, a reporter tracks down a medium who he has met several years beforehand. During this time, the medium (Arquette) who one assumes is actually a fake, begins to predict real events such as a murder and an accident at a nuclear plant. Somewhere along the line, a Mr Burns-type character sends a hit-man to kill her who only ends up killing her Father as he shoots through some form of spirit image of her. The photographs taken by the reporter who meets up with the older Arquette show no images of her so we assume he has met a ghost. Almost any 2 episodes of the X-Files would be better viewing, and any episode of the TV series Medium starring her sister Patricia certainly would.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Creaky B movie
By a customer from Darlington England , 23 Jan 2007Hard to imagine this film was made in 1989 - it creaks like something twice its age. Arquette, with her teenage looks and little-girl voice, is totally unconvincing in the lead, as a travelling medium and Robards, as her show-biz dad, has seldom been so wooden in support. The rest of the cast couldn't act its way out of a paper bag, not helped by a clunky script and an unconvincing story line full of red herrings and non sequiturs. At one stage Arquette gets her kit off, which may console her male fans, but this has nothing much to do with any thing else in the film. The naive small-town credulity of the audiences is well done, but even these scenes are long drawn out and the whole movie is slow, slow, slow, culminating in a an unsatisfactory cop-out ending. And yet Radio Times gives it 4 stars!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good watching
By a customer from Glos , 15 Dec 2005One of those underrated films, it is well worth a watch if not just for seeing Rosanna Aruqette in her frillies.- Was this review helpful to you?
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