Local Color

Local Color

2008 · 107 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama

A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befriends a brilliant elderly alcoholic painter who has turned his back on not only art but life. The two form what appears to be at first a tenuous relationship. The kid wants to learn all the secrets the master has locked away inside his head and heart. Time has not been kind to the old master. His life appears pointless to him until the kid rekindles his interest in his work and ultimately gives him the will to live. Together, they give one another a priceless gift. The kid learns to see the world through the master's eyes. And the master learns to see life through the eyes of innocence again. This story is based on a real life experience.

Directed by George Gallo · Written by George Gallo

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Rent or Buy

Cast

Armin Mueller-Stahl Nicoli Seroff
Trevor Morgan John Talia Jr.
Ray Liotta John Talio Sr.
Samantha Mathis Carla
Ron Perlman Curtis Sunday
Nancy Casemore Mrs. Huntington-Quali
Julie Lott Gallo Sandra Sunday
Taso Papadakis Mechanized Artist
Charles Durning Yammi
Tom Adams Grey Artist

Make it a double feature

3h 32m together

Local Color

Middle Men

Both from George Gallo.

More from George GalloSee all →

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Bad Boys: Ride or Die · 2024

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

MovieActionComedy

After their late former Captain is framed, Lowrey and Burnett try to clear his name, only to end up on the run themselves.

Midnight Run

Midnight Run · 1988

MovieComedyCrime

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

Bad Boys for Life

Bad Boys for Life · 2020

Bad Boys for Life

MovieThrillerAction

Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

Bigger

MovieDramaHistory

The inspirational tale of the grandfathers of the fitness movement as we now know it, Joe & Ben Weider. Battling anti-Semitism, racism and extreme poverty, the brothers beat all odds to build an empire & inspire future generations.

29th Street

29th Street · 1991

After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.

Another Midnight Run

Another Midnight Run · 1994

Another Midnight Run

MovieTV MovieAction

Jack Walsh tries to track down two of the top con-artists around. But they know every trick in the book and Jack has trouble bringing them back to LA and getting a $45,000 pay day reward.

Bad Boys

Bad Boys · 1995

MovieActionThriller

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

Bad Boys II

Bad Boys II · 2003

MovieActionCrime

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

Midnight Run Around

Midnight Run Around · 1994

Midnight Run Around

MovieActionAdventure

Bounty hunter Jack Walsh heads for a small rural community in Oklahoma to bring back a young bail jumper, only to discover that the entire town has united to defend the young man.

Middle Men

Middle Men · 2009

MovieDramaComedy

Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.

See Spot Run

See Spot Run · 2001

MovieFamilyComedy

A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible, mailman, neighbor, Gordon, when the babysitter bails on her. Meanwhile, an assassin mob boss hires 2 goons to kill Agent 11. But when 11 escapes from the van when they tried to kill him, he hides in Gordon's Mailtruck that James is in too. And guess what they name him. Spot.

The Ritual Killer

The Ritual Killer · 2023

The Ritual Killer

MovieMysteryThriller

Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an anthropologist who hides an unspeakable secret. The line between sanity and madness thins as Boyd goes deeper into the killer’s world.

The Comeback Trail

The Comeback Trail · 2020

The Comeback Trail

MovieComedyCrime

Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting more than they ever imagined.

Columbus Circle

Columbus Circle · 2012

Columbus Circle

MovieCrimeDrama

An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.

The Whole Ten Yards

The Whole Ten Yards · 2004

The Whole Ten Yards

MovieComedyThriller

Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep; it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife, Cynthia.

Trapped in Paradise

Trapped in Paradise · 1994

Trapped in Paradise

MovieComedyCrime

Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.

More Like This

Lisbon Story

Lisbon Story · 1994

MovieDramaMusic

Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday · 2002

MovieDramaHistory

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

Little Buddha

Little Buddha · 1993

MovieDramaHistory

After the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children — one American and two Nepalese — who may be the rebirth of their great teacher.

The Rules of Attraction

The Rules of Attraction · 2002

The Rules of Attraction

MovieDramaRomance

The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.

Nowhere

Nowhere · 1997

MovieComedyDrama

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.

Russian Dolls

Russian Dolls · 2005

MovieComedyDrama

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

Paranoid Park

Paranoid Park · 2007

MovieDramaCrime

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

Edge of Seventeen

Edge of Seventeen · 1999

Edge of Seventeen

MovieComedyDrama

1984, Sandusky, Ohio. A naive 17-year-old navigates heartbreak and self-expression as he explores his sexuality.

The Band's Visit

The Band's Visit · 2007

The Band's Visit

MovieComedyDrama

A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.

Theorem

Theorem · 1968

MovieMysteryDrama

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter