It's in the Water
When hordes of gays and lesbians come out "of the closet" in the fictional town of Azalea Springs, Texas, intolerant residents go into a panic about the water supply.
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- Cast:
- Teresa Garrett
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Excellent, Without a doubt!!
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
There are a lot of very serious works about homosexuality that bravely comment on the human condition. I can't think of many that are from the gay perspective that try to be funny. Which is probably a bad thing.This movie tries to be funny. It wants to be funny. It does have it's moments. But mostly it's just trying. I am from the South and perhaps that makes it a lot harder for me to like this movie. Gay life in the South can produce some outlandish characters that were hinted at in the movie but were colorless and forced. The real life characters I grew up with were/are much funnier and smarter.But hey, I give Kelli Herd and her group 3 stars for trying. I think they were brave and hope they didn't lose too much money on it. She just needs to recruit less of her actors from dinner theater next time.I think we need more movies that from a gay perspective that are funny. Hopefully funnier than this one, but still as "nice".I think my favorite character was the knitter in the mens "hetero is good" group.
I would have never seen (or heard of) this film without having met and studied under Kelli at SMU. Seeing her reaction as she told us that in 6 years she'd never shown in at school made me begin to understand how exposed we are putting not only our 'projects' but our entire life in front of people for the sake of art."It's in the Water" is lots of fun. The character of Spencer is HILARIOUS, but not drawn up as a caricature like most of the straight people in the film. His lines are fabulous and delightfully droll, but human. One of the truest pleasures of the film.Otherwise, the previous reviewer was right--the love making scenes are tasteful and...pretty for lack of a better word. It helps, of course, that the two leading couples (Alex and Grace, and Mark and Tomas) are absolutely gorgeous, but the characters individually just light up from the inside out.Witty, excellent visual design and touching, this is certainly a film that I would recommend. As a huge fan of all things Texas, this is going up as one of my favorite films.
Its been a long time since I've seen acting this BAD. The story certainly had potential but the overall quality is worse than a B movie. Bad editing, bad lighting, bad sets certainly contributed to an overall bad movie. I'm totally amazed at the people that gave it a score better than a one, the one would be for a story with potential, nothing else in this movie deserved a point. I painfully made it through the movie hoping for an ending that could redeem the movie. I waited for a love story to develop in this movie as a point of redemption but all I got at the end could be called a childish same sex experiment. I'm glad I borrowed it from the library and didn't have to pay rental fee.
I am stunned that this movie received such high marks from the IMDB-using public. This is easily one of the most horribly-acted, derived, uninteresting, stereotypical movies I've ever seen. I dare you to click on ANY of the lead actors' names in the IMDB listing. They've done nothing! Not that success is determined by volume of work, but kids, let's not fool ourselves. If this movie was "universally praised at festivals all over the world", these people would have gone on to do something else besides episodes of "Walker, Texas Ranger" (with apologies to Chuck Norris).My friends and I laughed alright...laughed at how awful and stereotypical everyone was. (Laughed at how we'll never see that $4.00 rental fee again.) And I know some folks will argue that that was the point: they were supposed to be stereotypes. But there are so many inconsistencies and incongruities in the film that it's almost beyond discussion. (The painter, Tomas, doesn't even ask to be paid for painting an ENTIRE HOUSE?? And of course, the leader of the "ex-gay" group HAD to get caught coming out of a leather bar, in full leather regalia, have his picture snapped and spread on the front page of the local paper...didn't see that one coming six miles away.)Please, don't rent this film; it's mere existence is pointless, except to provoke commentary like this and to diminish my faith in the movie-viewing public.