| The Waterdance | |
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| Directed by | Neal Jimenez Michael Steinberg |
| Written by | Neal Jimenez |
| Produced by | Marie Cantin (producer) Gale Anne Hurd (producer) Guy Riedel (executive producer) |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Mark Plummer |
| Edited by | Jeff Freeman |
| Music by | Michael Convertino |
| Distributed by | The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.7 million[1] |
| Box office | $1,723,319 (United States)[2] |
The Waterdance is a 1992 American 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 tetraplegic fully paralyzed 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.
- ^ "The Waterdance". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ^ "The Waterdance (1992)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 27, 2011.