Local Color is a 2006 American drama film, written and directed by George Gallo and starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ray Liotta and Trevor Morgan in the lead role.

Talia manages to meet Nicholai Seroff, an elderly Russian expatriate impressionist painter who had been quite successful before the modern art movement threw realism into disrepute.

Gradually, Talia attempts to befriend the elderly artist, and despite many rebuffs, finally succeeds.

During the first weeks, Seroff seems to be using Talia as an unpaid laborer to fix up his house, however it becomes clear that the Russian is sharing nuggets of wisdom about life and art.

The company stayed in two different hotels to avoid delays driving from New Orleans to a nearby location at the end of the schedule and were thus able to wrap production only 8 days before Hurricane Katrina without interruption.