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Writer:
Mike Hodges (writer)
Release Date:
3 October 1997 (USA)
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Tagline:
She can see the killer's face. She knows the victim's name. The only thing she doesn't know ... is when the murder will take place.
Plot:
Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive...
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5 wins
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1 nomination
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Nice low-budget thriller
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rosanna Arquette | ... | Martha Travis |
 | Jason Robards | ... | Walter Travis |
 | Tom Hulce | ... | Gary Wallace |
 | Mark Joy | ... | Lloyd Harley |
 | Ron Rosenthal | ... | Lieutenant Irving Weinberg |
| John Bennes | ... | Ted Silas |
| Linda Pierce | ... | Mary Kuron |
 | Olek Krupa | ... | Tom Kuron |
| Marty Terry | ... | Mrs. Adams |
 | Ed Grady | ... | Editor, Geoff McBain (as Ed L. Grady) |
| Jon Thompson | ... | Jack Callow |
 | Helen Baldwin | ... | Eva Callow |
| Darla N. Warner | ... | Shirley Harley |
| Christopher L. Gray | ... | Choirmaster |
| Lucy Williams | ... | Choirlady |
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Runtime:
103 min | Argentina:95 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Finland:K-15 (new rating: 2001) |
Finland:K-16 (original rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Chile:14 |
Germany:16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Netherlands:16 |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Iceland:14 (original rating)
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Martha Travis:
Men lie with me, not to me!
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Movie Connections:
Features White Heat (1949)
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Soundtrack:
HE'S SO WONDERFUL
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Black Rainbow is a low-budget mystery with supernatural overtones, a rare genre that I'm particularly fond of. The sound and the picture quality on the print I saw was not great but was certainly watchable. I really enjoyed the premise: a fake psychic starts actually prophesizing people's deaths -- both the why and how -- which makes her a target for a hit man. Arquette is pretty good in the role -- kind of a mystical and ethereal nymphomaniac and Robards is great as always. The plot meanders a bit and sometimes gets a little slow, but I still enjoyed it. The ending didn't really make a lot of sense to me -- maybe I missed something earlier in the movie -- but I was surprised by this ending and liked it even if though it didn't seem to be supported by the rest of the movie.