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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 15, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Bell, Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen & Jack Gleason | |
Directed by | Vic Sarin | |
Screenwriting by | Vic Sarin, Catherine Spear & Dennis Foon | |
Composition by | Keith Power & The Henry Girls | |
Director of Photography: | Vic Sarin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A nice, wholesome movie with a positive story about learning to be loved and to love others. Unfortunately, it's also too dull and treacly for most tastes.
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Christianity Today
Rating: 3/5 --
A Shine of Rainbows is a sweet tale about a little boy and the mother who teaches him to appreciate every nook and cranny of everyday life.
Jam! Movies
Rating: 2/4 --
A family film that risks drowning in its own syrup.
Globe and Mail
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Hey, what's not to like about cute orphans, baby seals, sweet moms and gruff dads with hearts of gold? And rainbows? If your heart is going thumpety-thump at such a prospect, here is the movie for you.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/5 --
A fine family film about an orphan who finds a satisfying new life in the countryside of Ireland.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The story is sweet and tender, and it's modestly self-contained. Sure, it deals with some heavy topics and subjects, but it doesn't beat the viewer over the head with it.
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7M Pictures
Rating: B- --
Far from the most convincing source of matinee entertainment, it's pleasing to find something not backed by an aggressive marketing campaign, focused on the plague of modern youth, or weighed down by bathroom humor.
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BrianOrndorf.com
Product Description:
A young boy struggles to find love and acceptance with his new family in this drama from director Vic Sarin. Tomas (John Bell) is an eight-year-old orphan living in a home for children without parents on an island off the Irish coastline. Tomas has become a target for bullies and knows little peace at the orphanage, so he's overjoyed when he's adopted by Maire O'Donnell (Connie Nielsen), a lovely and caring woman who takes the boy under her wing. However, while Maire shows Tomas plenty of kindness, the same cannot be said for her husband, Alec (Aidan Quinn), who doesn't hide his disappointment with his frail new son. As Tomas tries to understand Alec and live up to his expectations, he finds a baby seal on the beach, and begins caring for the abandoned animal, showing it the compassion he's longed for in his own life. A SHINE OF RAINBOWS was an official selection at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.