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Paint It Black (1989)

Paint It Black poster
Directed by
Tim Hunter
Genre
thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 44m
Rated
R
Rating
3.0 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A struggling artist in California is suspected of murder after his lover, a gallery owner, is killed by a serial killer. He tries to clear his name while evading the police.

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What happens

Paint It Black is a 1989 American thriller film directed by Tim Hunter and starring Rick Rossovich, Sally Kirkland, Doug Savant, Julie Carmen, and Martin Landau. The film is about a struggling California artist who becomes a suspect after a serial killer murders his gallery-owner lover. It was released to Vestron Video and is one of the company's last titles before it folded. The film had a troubled production history, as the original director Roger Holzberg was replaced by Hunter following his work on the acclaimed River's Edge. The script underwent so many changes that writers Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod chose to be credited in the finished film under the pseudonyms Michael Drexler and A.H. Zacharias. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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