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It's In The Water Details

1998

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Starring	Keri Jo Chapman, Barbara Lasater, Teresa Garrett, Derrick Sanders
Director	Kelli Herd
Genres	Comedy, Gay/Lesbian, Romance

It's In The Water

A hidden well of gay-lesbian culture comes bubbling to the surface of a small Western town in this independent comedy/drama. In the Texas town of Azalea Springs, life for the most part still seems stuck in the 1950s; the women have big hair, they join the Junior League, and they don't buck the status quo. Also, homosexuality is something that just isn't talked about, so many of the townspeople are shocked when Hope House, a hospice for AIDS patients, opens in their little town. Alexandra Alex Stratton (Keri Jo Chapman), who is stuck in an unhappy marriage with her boorish husband Robert (Matthew S. Thompkins) and has an overbearing and prejudiced mom, Lily Talbot (Barbara Lasater), decides to volunteer at the hospice, which scandalizes most of the other ladies of the League. Alex soon discovers that her best friend from high school, Grace Miller (Teresa Garrett), is working there as a nurse; Grace recently went through a difficult divorce when her husband discovered that Grace was having an affair with one of her co-workers...who happened to be female. Alex soon finds herself looking at Grace in a new way, and friendship gives way to something much deeper. Meanwhile, Spencer (John Hallum), a very out-of-the-closet friend of Alex's, begins joking with people that homosexuality is being spread by something in the town's water supply. With Alex and Grace's affair the hot item in the town's gossip mill and newspaperman Mark (Derrick Sanders) falling in love with artist Thomas (Timothy Vahle), this witticism finds its way to many gullible ears, and fire and brimstone preacher Brother Daniel (John Addington) forms Homo-No-Mo, a support group for gay men who want to return to the straight and narrow, so to speak. The supporting cast features Jerry Haynes, best known as Mr. Peppermint, the host of a syndicated children's television series; he's also the father of Gibby Haynes, sometimes film actor and lead singer for the alternative rock band The Butthole Surfers.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Starring	Keri Jo Chapman, Barbara Lasater, Teresa Garrett, Derrick Sanders, Tommy Townsend
Director	Kelli Herd
Studio	MILLIVRES MULTIMEDIA / LACE
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 40 mins
Certificate
Genres	Comedy, Gay/Lesbian, Romance
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1998 To Rent: DVD: 08 Jul 2002

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  Most gay/lesbian films are either completely crap or take themselves too seriously. Ok, so this film is not the most enthralling film I have ever watched. ... read more »
  
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  Pity the water was not fortified
  
  A mediocre film with very little going for it. Was it originally intended as short but expended to full length, I am not sure but for me it did not work as a ... read more »
  
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  What a refreshing difference. Good acting and a first class story line that shows the ignorance of those who don't understand.
  
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  Rather painful
  
  long winded, dull and just not sexy.... hopefully I can save a couple of hours of your life by telling you not to bother...
  
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  A hidden well of gay-lesbian culture comes bubbling to the surface of a small Western town in this independent comedy/drama. In the Texas town of Azalea Springs, life for the most part still seems stuck in the 1950s; the women have big hair, they join the Junior League, and they don't buck the ...