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Format: VHS
Feb 1993
Rated R
Recording Mode: Dolby Surround
Sound: Stereo, Surround, HiFi
Closed Captioned
106 min.
Color
Extra Info: Closed Captioned
UPC: 043396912434 |
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Movie Description
Eric Stoltz is Joel Garcia, a talented young writer who awakens from a hiking accident to find that he is paralyzed from the waist down. In order to put his life back together, he must graduate from a rehabilitation center. There he meets ladies' man Raymond (Wesley Snipes) and racist biker Bloss (William Forsythe), both recovering from similar accidents. As the three men strive to reconcile the bitterness they each feel, they become friends and learn to live with their reality. Co-Director and screenwriter Neal Jimenez's (RIVER'S EDGE) script is loosely based on his own experiences. Winner of the Audience Award and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Synopsis
Writer/director Neal Jimenez's semi-autobiographical story about three newly disabled men who meet in a rehabilitation center and strike up an unlikely friendship. Joel, a writer; Bloss, a bigoted biker; and Ray, a boastful, embittered black man come from vastly differing backgrounds but find a common ground in their attempt to come to terms with their lives as a paraplegics. Much of their trauma centers around the loss of their sexuality -- particularly for Joel, who was in the midst of an affair with a married woman when he was injured. Now the uncertainty of Joel and his girlfriend's future together is compounded by the fact that Joel has to re-learn, physically and emotionally, how to have a sexual relationship.
Film Notes
Estimated budget $2.7 million.
Filmed in Los Angeles, California.
The film won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah where it was shown in competition January 16-26, 1992. Also screened as the closing film at the Cleveland Film Festival April 3-12, 1992. It was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards (1992) by the IFP/West, including best first feature and best supporting actors (Forsythe and Snipes).
Limited release in the USA May 13, 1992. Released on video February 10, 1993.
Feature directorial debut for screenwriter Neal Jimenez ("The River's Edge"). "The Water Dance" is a semi-autobiographical story based on Jimenez's own experiences. Jimenez was injured while on a camping trip with his married mistress. As a result of those injuries, and he is now confined to a wheelchair.
Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Censors.
Industry Reviews
"...[THE WATERDANCE] is big in feelings expressed with genuine passion and a lot of gutsy humor....[Stoltz gives] a fine, self-assured, carefully measured performance that is the conscience of the film..."
Canby
"...Fitfully engaging....THE WATERDANCE is an honest, almost confessional attempt to deal with the overwhelming in identity....The movie is stirringly candid..."
Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman (05/22/1992)
"...[A] remarkable piece of work....Wickedly funny, undeniably moving, featuring a knockout series of performances and the most sensual of love scenes, it has everything audiences have been missing in American films..."
Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan (05/13/1992)
"...It is exhilarating and challenging to see a movie that knows exactly what it's talking about, and looks you straight in the eye..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (05/15/1992)
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