Rainbow

Rainbow is a 1996 family adventure film directed by Bob Hoskins, written by Ashley Sidaway and Robert Sidaway and starring Bob Hoskins, Terry Finn, Jacob Tierney, Saul Rubinek and Dan Aykroyd. The story concerns four children and a dog whose journey in a magical rainbow results in an adventure that finds them on a race against time to save the world. Rainbow was the world's first all digital film and was shot in high-definition video. Shot entirely with Sony's first Solid State Electronic Cinematography cameras and featuring over 35 minutes of digital image processing and visual effects, all post production, sound effects, editing and scoring were completed digitally. The Digital High Definition image was transferred to 35mm negative using Sony's Electron Beam Recorder for theatrical release. Synopsis Mike "Mikey" Bailey is a rambunctious 10-year-old living in Hudson Harbour, New Jersey with his grandfather Frank, a magician; his single mother Jackie, who works in the newsroom at a local TV station; and his older brother Steve, who is a loner and wishes to join a local gang of teenagers. Mike encounters a stray dog who he names Mutt, who leads him to a spot where he seemingly witnesses a rainbow actually land. He tells his friends Pete and Tessy of his encounter and takes them to the landing site, but they do not believe his claims. At the site they find a triangular crater. Tessy takes a soil sample and tests it, and the soil illuminates in colour and vanishes in her hand. Mike, Pete, and Tessy prepare a project to track down the next rainbow and examine it. Eventually, a rainbow appears and the three, along with Steve and Mutt, race across town on their bicycles to get to the rainbow. Upon arrival, they witness it land and are sucked into a colourful passageway, taking photographs as they go. They are surrounded by sparkling lights, when turn into pieces of gold when touched. Steve pockets three of the pieces, which causes the rainbow to vanish and drop the group into a cornfield in Kansas. The farmer takes them to the office of sheriff Wyatt Hampton, who calls Jackie at work to make arrangements to send the kids home. The sheriff takes the kids to the airport, where they sneak away to a get their pictures developed and lead the sheriff on a wild chase before boarding their flight. They arrive back in Hudson Harbor, where they are mobbed my reporters who had been tipped off by Jackie's boss.