Rainbow Drive
| Rainbow Drive | |
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| Genre | Thriller |
| Written by |
Roderick Thorp (book) Bill Phillips (teleplay) Bennett Cohen (teleplay) |
| Directed by | Bobby Roth |
| Starring |
Peter Weller Sela Ward David Caruso |
| Theme music composer | Tangerine Dream |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Michael Viner |
| Producer(s) | John Veitch |
| Cinematography | Tim Suhrstedt |
| Editor(s) | Henk Van Eeghen |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Dove International ITC Entertainment Group Viacom Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | Showtime Cable Network |
| Original release | September 8, 1990 |
Rainbow Drive is a thriller television 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.
The film is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp.
The film stars Peter Weller as Mike Gallagher, Sela Ward as Laura Demming and David Caruso as Larry Hammond. Others in the film included Tony Jay as Max Hollister, James Laurenson as Hans Roehrig, Jon Gries as Azzolini, Henry G. Sanders as Marvin Burgess and Chris Mulkey as Ira Rosenberg.
The film remains available on out-of-print VHS only, released in both America and the UK. The only DVD version that exists is a French import.
The film was nominated for one Mystfest award, for "Best Film" (Bobby Roth).
Rainbow Drive was given a very limited theatrical release.
The film's tagline reads "He's the right cop, on the wrong road. It's a dead end."
The movie's music was scored by Tangerine Dream, but never released as a soundtrack. The title track was released on the bootleg Prayer of Quiet Dreams in 1993.
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 murder 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 investigations. 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.
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."
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