Rainbow Drive

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Rainbow Drive
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Poster and VHS cover of "Rainbow Drive"
GenreThriller
Written by Roderick Thorp (book)
Bill Phillips (teleplay)
Bennett Cohen (teleplay)
Directed by Bobby Roth
Starring Peter Weller
Sela Ward
David Caruso
Tony Jay
Theme music composer Tangerine Dream
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producer Michael Viner
ProducerJohn Veitch
CinematographyTim Suhrstedt
EditorHenk Van Eeghen
Running time100 minutes
Production companies Dove International
ITC Entertainment
Viacom Productions
Release
Original network Showtime
Original releaseSeptember 8, 1990 (1990-09-08)

Rainbow Drive is a 1990 American made-for-television thriller film directed by Bobby Roth and starring Peter Weller, Sela Ward and David Caruso. The film first aired on September 8, 1990, on the Showtime Cable Network. It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp.

Contents

Rainbow Drive was given a very limited theatrical release. [1] It was released in America and the UK on VHS. [2] [3] The film was nominated for one Mystfest award, for "Best Film" (Bobby Roth). [4] The soundtrack was scored by Tangerine Dream, but was never released as a stand-alone release. The title track was later included on the bootleg Prayer of Quiet Dreams in 1993. [5]

Plot

Mike Gallagher is one of Los Angeles' top cops, who is acting head of Hollywood's homicide division. But Gallagher is soon wrenched out of his orderly existence into a dirty world of killing and corruption. Gallagher's affair with a married woman leads him to stumble across a vicious scene of multiple murders on L.A. highway Rainbow Drive. Gallagher senses something strange when reinforcements arrive even before he has called them. When his superiors freeze him out of the case, Gallagher begins his own investigation. With the help of mysterious ally Laura Demming, Gallagher draws closer to the truth, and danger moves closer to his partner and mistress. His investigation propels him into a web of drugs and vice, corruption and cover-up - an intricate web that implicates some of the city's most senior figures.

Cast

Critical reception

Jason Ankeny of Allmovie gave the film three out of five stars, stating: "In this made-for-cable adaptation of Roderick Thorp's crime thriller, Peter Weller stars as a Hollywood cop whose murder investigation runs into a wall of police corruption." [6] The book Video Movie Guide 1996 awarded the film two and a half stars out of five, [7] while VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever gave the film two out of five stars. [8]

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