It's in the Water (1997)

I love this movie so much

Such a frustrating disappointment

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Flat, inept dialog and worse direction. Stereotypes all. Every character spoke in the same, overacted voice. Each and everyone was stilted in performance, except for the singer near the end.Overall execution was poor. Camera and lighting were as flat as the dialog. Everyone represented a 'type'. There was no reality to the characters, nor was there and tone of clever.The film only came to life for about three minutes, when a gifted Gospel singer sang words not written by the writer/director.There could have been a good comedy with the premise, but it never surfaced.

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.

This was rather a disappointment for me. The title and the promotional copy pushed the movie as a farce, but the film shied away from really exploring the grotesquery and silliness of the situation. The paranoia such a situation should unleash was seriously underplayed. The film should have been about the fluidity of gender identity as people question each other's sexual orientation based on superficial behaviors and the rumor-mill demand that something must be happening, and even in some cases question their own orientation because of the mass hysteria. Instead we saw a rather conventional coming-out story -- not the worst of its kind, but nothing memorable either. I felt like the victim of a bait and switch. This was not the movie I was promised.4 stars out of 10

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.