It's in the Water

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Movie Info

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.

Rating:

R
Genre:

Comedy, Romance, Gay & Lesbian
Directed By:

Kelli Herd
Written By:

Kelli Herd
In Theaters:

Jan 30, 1998 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

May 16, 2000
Runtime:

99 minutes
Studio:

Wolfe Video

Cast

Keri Jo Chapman
as Alex Stratton

Teresa Garrett
as Grace Miller

Derrick Sanders
as Mark Anderson

Timothy Vahle
as Tomas

Barbara Lasater
as Lily Talbott

Tommy Townsend

Nancy Chartier
as Sloan

John Hallum
as Spencer

Beverly May
as Mrs. Bracken

Matthew Tompkins
as Robert Stratton

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Jun 14, 2009

I was hoping for an offbeat, tongue in cheek sci-fi flick but this degenerated into a very pedestrian and familiar survey of straight attitudes about gays. Not at all groundbreaking nor very interesting. Only mildly humorous.

Pamela D Super Reviewer
Apr 01, 2006

Ok, so this movie is badly and cheaply done, suffers from virtually every cliché you could imagine (refreshing: the straight characters are the clichéd ones while the gays are lovely, well-rounded characters) - but it is SOOOOO funny. And the fun I had while watching it adds the third star, which it technically probably wouldn't deserve. Straight people won't get half of the in-jokes, though! ;-)

Ina S Super Reviewer