The Rainbow Kid (2015)

Directed by

Kire Paputts

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

14A

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy with Down syndrome runs away from home in rural Northern Ontario. He follows a rainbow he sees after a storm, hoping to find a pot of gold at the end of it.

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What happens

The Rainbow Kid is a 2015 Canadian drama film directed by Kire Paputts, telling the story of a traumatized adolescent runaway with Down syndrome in rural Northern Ontario. It was shown in the Discovery section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film, an expansion of Paputts' prior short film The Rainbow Connection, stars Dylan Harman as Eugene, a teenage boy with Down syndrome who sees a rainbow following a thunderstorm and, inspired by his favourite book, sets off on a journey to find the pot of gold at the end of it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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