The Waterdance (1992)

Directed by

Neal Jimenez

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young writer becomes paraplegic after a hiking accident and adjusts to life in a rehabilitation center. He works to recover both physically and emotionally while bonding with other patients.

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What happens

The Waterdance is a 1992 American comedy-drama film directed by Neal Jimenez and Michael Steinberg and starring Eric Stoltz, Wesley Snipes, William Forsythe, and Helen Hunt. It was written by Neal Jimenez. The film is a semi-autobiographical story about a young fiction writer who becomes paraplegic in a hiking accident and works to rehabilitate his body and mind at a rehabilitation center. The title refers to a dream recounted by Raymond Hill, Snipes's character, about dancing on the surface of a lake. Since, in Raymond's dream, he must continue dancing on the lake to avoid sinking and drowning, the dream may be a metaphoric reference to the necessity of continually coping with the world. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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