1994
R
Buena Vista Pictures
2 h 1 m

1994
R
Buena Vista Pictures
2 h 1 m

Summary A color-blind psychiatrist Bill Capa (Bruce Willis) is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group, all of whom have a connection to a mysterious young woman that Capa begins having intense sexual encounters with.

Directed By: Richard Rush

Written By: Billy Ray, Matthew Chapman

1994
R
Buena Vista Pictures
2 h 1 m

1994
R
Buena Vista Pictures
2 h 1 m

Color of Night

Name: Color of Night
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Released: 1994-08-19
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Rating: 36
Cast: Bruce Willis, Jane March, Rubén Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Scott Bakula

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings

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Directed By: Richard Rush

Written By: Billy Ray, Matthew Chapman

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews

11% Positive
3 Reviews

50% Mixed
14 Reviews

39% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews

11% Positive
3 Reviews

50% Mixed
14 Reviews

39% Negative
11 Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly

Possible unmet expectations aside, Color of Night remains compelling for a number of reasons. Foremost among them is Bruce Willis, who gives a quietly persuasive performance.

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Miami Herald

Isolated moments in Color of Night hint at Rush's visual creativity. He can spin afresh the most perfunctory scenes -- watch the clever way he shoots a simple fender-bender, or his spectacular take on an opening-scene suicide. But as the story falls into place, the visual embellishments feel increasingly hollow, like fancy icing on a grocery-store sheet cake. [19 Aug 1994, p.G5]

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Entertainment Weekly

A deliriously brain-dead erotic thriller...The patients (played by, among others, Lesley Ann Warren and Brad Dourif) are all nutjob cliches.

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Empire

A film that isn't so much bad as bizarre with Willis disastrously miscast as a gun-hating trauma victim and the kind of ending that even the writers of Scooby Doo wouldn't dare contemplate.

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Christian Science Monitor

You thought brawny Bruce Willis couldn't play a brainy psychologist? You were right. Or maybe it's the idiocy of the movie surrounding him that sinks his performance long before the halfway mark.

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USA Today

A plot-twist whodunit that even Forrest Gump might crack, it's also a Hall of Fame howler from long-inactive Richard Rush, whose direction of 1967's Hell's Angels on Wheels now seems comparably placid. [19 Aug 1994, p.10D]

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Tampa Bay Times

It's sad to see mercurial talent unused, and even more disheartening to see it completely wasted. Color of Night, the first film in 14 years from director Richard Rush, is a dreadful miscalculation of a comeback; a sexual thriller equally lewd and ludicrous. Rush has already disavowed the reworked version opening nationwide today, promising his original vision will be available later on video. [19 Aug 1994, p.7B]

By Steve Persall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Hollywood Pictures, Cinergi Pictures Entertainment

Release Date Aug 19, 1994

Duration 2 h 1 m

Rating R

Genres

Tagline Love can be murder

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Awards

Golden Globes, USA

• 1 Nomination

Razzie Awards

• 1 Win & 9 Nominations

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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Bruce Willis

Bill Capa

Jane March

Rose

Rubén Blades

Martinez

Lesley Ann Warren

Sondra

Scott Bakula

Bob Moore

Brad Dourif

Clark

Lance Henriksen

Buck

Kevin J. O'Connor

Casey

Andrew Lowery

Dale

Eriq La Salle

Anderson

Jeff Corey

Ashland

Kathleen Wilhoite

Michelle

Shirley Knight

Edith Niedelmeyer

John Bower

Medical Examiner

Avi Korein

Bouncer

Steven R. Barnett

Cop #1

Roberta Storm

Receptionist

Erick Avari

Cabbie

Lena Banks

Mrs. Capa on picture

Rachel Wagner

Dancer

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