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A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three African American women living in Brooklyn, Alma’s Rainbow explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) as she enters womanhood and navigates standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies. Rainbow attends a strict parochial school, studies dance, and lives with her strait-laced mother Alma (Kim Weston-Moran), who runs a hair salon in the parlor of their home and disapproves of her daughter’s newfound interest in boys. When Alma’s free-spirited sister Ruby (Mizan Kirby) returns from Paris after a ten-year absence, the sisters clash over what constitutes the “proper” direction for Rainbow’s life. 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.
Original Release
06/23/1994
US Release
06/23/1994
Cast
Name | Character |
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Kim Weston-Moran | Alma Gold |
Victoria Gabrielle Platt | Rainbow Gold |
Mizan Kirby | Ruby Gold |
Lee Dobson | Lapis White, aka 'Blue' / Lapis White, aka "Blue" |
Isaiah Washington | Miles |
Jennifer Copeland | Babs |
Keyonn Sheppard | Pepper |
Roger Pickering | Sea Breeze |
Sydney Best | William B. Underdo, III |
Dakota Jackson-Brewer | Rainbow as a Baby |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Kim Weston-Moran | Alma Gold |
Victoria Gabrielle Platt | Rainbow Gold |
Mizan Kirby | Ruby Gold |
Lee Dobson | Lapis White, aka 'Blue' / Lapis White, aka "Blue" |
Isaiah Washington | Miles |
Jennifer Copeland | Babs |
Keyonn Sheppard | Pepper |
Roger Pickering | Sea Breeze |
Sydney Best | William B. Underdo, III |
Dakota Jackson-Brewer | Rainbow as a Baby |
Sandra Daley | Cynthia |
M. LaVora Perry | Nzingha |
Murtell Dortch | Beauty Parlour Customer / Guest at Alma's Party |
Teri Dunbar | Beauty Parlour Customer / Featured Dancer at Alma's Party |
Constance Carter | Beauty Parlour Customer / Guest at Alma's Party |
Jeanne Nedd | Beauty Parlour Customer / Moontime Advisor |
Ayoka Chenzira | Nun |
Lydia Trueheart | Nun |
Sharlaine Hendrickson | Featured Dancer at Alma's Party |
Vicki Platt | Featured Dancer at Alma's Party |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ayoka Chenzira | Producer |
Howard M. Brickner | Producer |
Geri Jasper | Producer |
Charles Lane | Producer |