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Black Rainbow is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Mike Hodges released in USA on 5 december 1989 with Rosanna Arquette
Black Rainbow (1989)
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Add to a movie listBlack Rainbow is a 1989 supernatural thriller film directed by Mike Hodges and filmed in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
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Rosanna Arquette stars as Martha Travis, a medium who hosts a touring clairvoyant show with her alcoholic father Walter (Jason Robards) where she helps members of the audience make contact with deceased relatives. At one meeting, she foretells the violent death of a local factory employee (Olek Krupa), a whistleblower who was set to reveal corporate malpractice at the plant, and soon becomes the target of the killer herself. At a subsequent meeting in the town, she appears to identify several other individuals who are set to die or be killed. A sceptical local journalist investigating the death, Gary Wallace (Tom Hulce), begins following the couple and the story. The story is told in flashback, with the opening scenes showing Wallace searching for the reclusive Martha many years after the events depicted in the main body of the film.Actors
Rosanna Arquette
(Martha Travis)
Jason Robards
(Walter Travis)
Tom Hulce
(Gary Wallace)
Olek Krupa
(Tom Kuron)
Ed Grady
(Editor, Geoff McBain)
Muse Watson
(Police Officer)
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