The Rainbow

Drama

1989

1h 50m

Ken Russell's adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by a bisexual physical education instructress. While experiencing disillusionment in her first career attempt, teaching, she has an affair with a young Army officer who wants to marry her. Unable to accept a future of domesticity, she breaks it off with him and eventually leaves home in search of her destiny.

Starring	Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Christopher Gable, David Hemmings, Glenda Jackson, Dudley Sutton, Jim Carter, Judith Paris, Kenneth Colley, Glenda McKay, Ralph Nossek, Kenneth Colley, Molly Russell
Genres	Drama , Other
Studios	Lionsgate
Popular UPC	26469500000000