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List Price: $5.99 | | Label: Trinity Home Ent
Salesrank: 55096
Released: January 11, 2005 |
| Our Price: $1.59 |
| Used Price: $1.04 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Martha Travis (Rosanna Arquette) is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances. Trouble begins when she gives a message to Mary Kuron (Linda Pierce) from her husband, Tom (Olek Krupa). But Tom isn't dead... yet. And Martha not only knows he will die, she also knows who killed him. And the murderer knows she knows....
Black Rainbow Reviews:
Fabulous Flick 
2009-01-21 - I found this movie used at a flea market for $1.00 and figured "what the heck". The old adage "One man's trash is another man's treasure" applies perfectly. Black Rainbow is a well made, well acted, and attention holding flick dealing with a seemingly scamming medium{Rosanna Arquette} who really does get accurate futuristic visions from time to time which are pooh-poohed by her alcoholic degenerate gambling father played by Jason Robards. Tom Hulce portrays a skeptical reporter who is investigating a murder which was apparently forecast in one of the medium's visions. What ensues is a riveting drama which includes more prognistications and a hired hit man who actually was the perpetrator of the original murder and fears that the medium would recognize him from her vision. I consider this movie to be a "keeper" and it comes with my highest recommendations.
The movie started filming in Charlotte, Nc in 1989 
2009-01-10 - The movie was filmed in Charlotte, Nc in 1989. I have never watched the whole movie. I never heard of it making it to the theathers and don't know why it didn't. I heard it flopped, some above seem to like it. I bought it for my daughter because her mother who passed away in 2002 is an extra in several parts of the film. One really close up full face wearing a big hat. Our Children & Grand Children miss you Lavette.
Excellent movie, excellent Rosanna
2008-08-10 - This movie is very interesting. A mysterious story about a fake medium that deceives people (compeled by the father). Suddenly strangelly she begins to listen to spirits and see the future in true. Rosanna's character is pretty mysterious, sensually shy, she is conflicted with her father. Fantastic and intriguer!!! Great ending.
Very interesting low budget offering from Mike Hodges 
2007-08-23 - First let me say that this disc is far from being a great transfer. This is pan and scan, the print is somewhat damaged. However the sound is really pretty good. At the price, who can complain. Now, the movie: I am exploring the work of Mike Hodges, and this like the others I've seen is an interesting film. Rosanna Arquette is very good. Jason Robards is good, but he's repeating a role he played many times. Tom Hulce shows that Amadeus may have been a fluke in which he was very well directed. But the story is interesting and the the bones are there for a better movie. This is really a British movie about people in the US. The different viewpoint is always facinating.
Great cinema? No way. Worth a rainy night's viewing? For sure. And worth some study if you're a film buff.
"We steal when we touch tomorrow."
2006-03-27 - Saying that Black Rainbow is one of its director's best films doesn't sound much of a compliment when you're talking about a man whose resume includes Morons From Outer Space and not one but two Clive Owen stinkers even if it is true. Mike Hodges' reputation these days rests solely on a gangster movie he made 35 years ago, and the fact that his subsequent efforts have either been too clinical to work (The Terminal Man), too flawed to completely satisfy (Pulp), outright awful (A Prayer for the Dying) or saw him fired early in production (Damien: Omen II) has done little to deter labelling him as a one-hit wonder. True to his run of luck, this neat little supernatural thriller was barely released, going straight to cable in the US and getting caught up in a distribution scandal in the UK, where Palace tried to get copies into video stores (selling it as virtual soft porn, believe it or not!) before the film even opened theatrically.
It's that old chestnut, the medium who sees too much - in this case getting messages from dead people who haven't died yet - and puts her life in danger, but it's rarely been done this well. Starting off as a sort of Emily Gantry as written by Eugene O'Neill (with Jason Robards playing another of his drunken pater familiases), it offers Rosanna Arquette her best role, and she certainly rises to the challenge. The premonition scenes carry a real frisson, there are neat humanising touches (the hitman for once has a family life and can't get a decent seat on an airplane) and Hodges' dialog is surprisingly good. But what really caries it is the characterization: these are all believably damaged people clinging onto any tenuous hope they can find, be it religion or the bottle, to prevent taking a good look at themselves - as one bereaved character puts it, "Maybe if we weren't so bothered about the hereafter we'd pay more attention to the here and now."
