After enjoying Twice, we had high expectations for Chasing Rainbows since it had the same writer and director and some of the same actors. We did watch it to the end but ended up a little disappointed. The various plot lines are disjointed and do not converge into a coherent whole.

The protagonist, Scarlet, played by Natalie Neilson, finds out she was adopted after her adoptive parents are killed in a car crash. She heads off to Boston in search of her birth parents. She has a nasty run-in with three thugs. It shows she is resilient and resourceful, but that plot line adds little to the story.

Her birth mother is Roberta, a Swedish immigrant, who sings at a nightclub. She has the notes but concentrates too much on the notes and not enough on interpreting the lyrics. Scarlet tracks her down but does not immediately reveal that she is her birth daughter. Roberta's Swedish brother-in-law also tracks her down. They talk in Swedish so you need to turn on CC to understand what they were talking about. Please do.

The owner of the nightclub leads a criminal double life, being paid to do dirty work to keep the night club afloat.

The acting and cinematography are pretty good for an Indie movie. Worth a watch when you can't find much else. Don't expect Cabaret or Chicago.

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Chasing Rainbows is in the tradition of New York, New York; Cabaret; and West Side Story. But its deeper influence comes from Orpheus by Claudio Monteverdi, which is considered to be the first opera in music history. In the opera, Orpheus descends into Hades to save his wife and bring her back to life. In Chasing Rainbows, a girl (Scarlet) finds she was adopted and goes on a search for her parents. This brings her to the darker side of Boston, where her real mother is a well-known nightclub singer. Like Orpheus, Scarlet faces dangerous tests before she is able to face her mother. In one way or another, every major character is the film is chasing a rainbow.

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