Alma's Rainbow (1994)
3.4 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 25min
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- Synopsis:
"Alma's Rainbow" is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn. Ayoka Chenzira's feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) who is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights Black women have over their bodies. Rainbow attends a strict parochial school, studies dance, and is just becoming aware of boys. She lives with her strait-laced mother Alma Gold (Kim Weston-Moran), who runs a hair salon in the parlor of their home. When Alma's free-spirited sister Ruby (Mizan Kirby) arrives from Paris after a 10-year absence, the sisters clash over what constitutes the "proper" direction Rainbow's life should take. Alma has fooled herself into believing she has no need of male companionship and advises her daughter to follow her example. Ruby encourages both her niece and her sister to embrace life - and love - fully and joyfully. 'Alma's Rainbow' highlights a multi-layered Black women's world where the characters live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency. - Actors:
- Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Nunes, Lee Dobson, Isaiah Washington, Jennifer Copeland, Keyonn Sheppard, Roger Pickering, Sydney Best, Dakota Jackson-Brewer, Sandra Daley, M. LaVora Perry, Murtell Dortch, Teri Dunbar, Constance Carter, Jeanne Nedd, Ayoka Chenzira, Lydia Trueheart, Sharlaine Hendrickson, Vicki Platt
- Directors:
- Ayoka Chenzira
- Producers:
- Howard M. Brickner, Ayoka Chenzira, Charles Lane
- Writers:
- Ayoka Chenzira
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama
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