The Rainbow Kid

The Rainbow Kid
Film poster
Directed byKire Paputts
Written byKire Paputts
StarringDylan Harman
CinematographyMaya Bankovic
Production
companies
Audiôs Amignes
Makeover Films
Whizbang Films
Train-Train Productions
Distributed byPhase 4 Films
Comedy Central Drama
Release date
  • 1 June 2015 (2015-06-01)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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.