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Alma's Rainbow
Directed by
Ayoka Chenzira
NR
1994
85m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.5
83%
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The life of teenager Rainbow Gold as she enters womanhood and navigates standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies.
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Cast of Alma's Rainbow
Kim Weston-Moran
Alma Gold
Victoria Gabrielle Platt
Rainbow Gold
Mizan Nunes
Ruby Gold
Jennifer Copeland
Babs
Lee Dobson
Lapis White, aka "Blue"
Keyonn Sheppard
Pepper
Roger Pickering
Sea Breeze
Isaiah Washington
Miles
Alma's Rainbow Ratings & Reviews
Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)
Marya E. Gates
At once personal and universally relatable.
Beyond the Cinerama Dome
Tina Kakadelis
That, no matter the era, humans have always had dreams, felt misunderstood by their parents, and tried their best to make sense of this indescribable world. Alma's Rainbow is timeless.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
What Alma's Rainbow lacks in shapeliness of script, it makes up for in the common sense and uncommon humor of its principals.
Miami Herald
Jackie Potts
Directed by Ayoka Chenzira, Alma's Rainbow intelligently explores the relationships among the three women as they grapple with their sexuality.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
The movie's real pleasures are its digressive, bubbly interludes.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It fails more often than it succeeds, but its heart is in the right place.
Newsday
John Anderson
Alma's Rainbow is about... sisterhood, in all its twisted and occasionally destructive permutations. The film may be flawed, but it does has something to say.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Roger Hurlburt
Alma's Rainbow is ambitious and occasionally fun. Unfortunately, director Chenzira's meandering script becomes diluted and confusing when it should have simplified an essentially interesting story.
Battleship Pretension
David Bax
Alma's Rainbow's restoration was overseen by the Academy Film Archive, Film Foundation and Milestone Films and it's presented by Julie Dash. The quality of work is worthy of all of those big names.
TheWrap
Ronda Racha Penrice
Chenzira and cinematographer Ronald K. Gray use the camera to showcase the many ways in which Black women move, collectively and individually, to express various emotions and moods including attraction, joy, and confidence.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Jas Keimig
The film gives as much attention to the relationship between Alma and Ruby as it does to Rainbow. The result is a film that unspools the complex relationships between two generations of women.
Variety
Deborah Young
A sparkling perf from young Victoria Gabriella Platt keeps the comedy-drama lively , but real drawing card is pic's realistic female p.o.v. on a black childhood.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
The characters verge on being stock comic types. In its affection for them and in its robust evocation of an black urban milieu, Alma's Rainbow recalls Spike Lee's first film, She's Gotta Have It.
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