movie poster for BLACK RAINBOW

Flicks ID

12718

Cert

15

Running time

98 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

BLACK RAINBOW (1989)

MIKE HODGES

Plot

Charlatan medium Martha Travis (Arquette) and her alcoholic father, Walter (Robards), make their living travelling from town to town putting on spiritualist performances during which Martha delivers false messages of hope from the dead to their surviving loved ones. At one such performance, Martha gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband, Tom. The problem is, Tom isn't dead. When Tom is killed exactly as Martha envisioned, the case attracts the attention of sceptical journalist Gary Wallace (Hulce), who discovers that Martha's premonition also revealed to her the identity of Tom Kuron's murderer.