Color of Night | |
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Directed by | Richard Rush |
Produced by |
Buzz Feitshans David Matalon Andrew G. Vajna |
Screenplay by |
Billy Ray Matthew Chapman |
Story by | Billy Ray |
Starring | |
Music by | Dominic Frontiere |
Cinematography | Dietrich Lohmann |
Edited by | Jack Hofstra Thom Noble (uncredited) |
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Distributed by |
Buena Vista Pictures (US) Pathé (UK) |
Release date
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Running time
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121 minutes 140 minutes (Director's cut) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $40 million |
Box office | $19,750,470 |
Color of Night is a 1994 American erotic mystery thriller film produced by Cinergi Pictures and released in the United States by Hollywood Pictures. Directed by Richard Rush, the film stars Bruce Willis and Jane March.
The cast also features Ruben Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Brad Dourif, Lance Henriksen, Kevin J. O'Connor and Scott Bakula. It is one of two well-known works by director Rush, the other being The Stunt Man 14 years before.
Color of Night flopped at the box office and won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of 1994. Nonetheless, it became one of the 20 most-rented films in the United States home video market in 1995.Maxim magazine also singled the film out as having the Best Sex Scene in film history.
Dr. Bill Capa (Willis), a New York City psychologist, falls into a deep depression after an unstable patient commits suicide in front of him by jumping from his office window. The sight of the bloody body of his patient clad in a bright green dress causes Capa to suffer from psychosomatic color blindness, taking away his ability to see the color red.
To restart his life, Capa travels to Los Angeles to stay with a friend, fellow therapist and best-selling author Dr. Bob Moore (Bakula), who invites him to sit in on a group therapy session. But one night Moore is violently murdered in the office and Capa is plunged into the mystery of his friend's death.