It's in the Water (1997)

You won't be disappointed!

One of my all time favorites.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This is truly a coming of age story for everyone concerned. It tells the tale of Alex and her having to deal with a new found desire or moreover, an old desire awakened by the return of Grace. Mark, meanwhile is grappling with his overbearing father, Yvanne and the Homo-No-Mo meetings. He is desperately trying to be what his father and the community want but, finding himself drawn in another direction by the very handsome Tomas who ends up painting Mark's dining room and his life a better colour. You have Sloane who never quite learns tolerance but gets put in her place by the willful Grace. The winner of the parents is Alex's dad. Her mom is so stuck in her patrician ways and may never see past them but, her dad is all right. Viola is nothing short of totally cool and funny especially when she comments on Alex's mom's dress in comparison with Brother Daniel. The story of Bruce and Spencer is very touching and at times tear jerking. You can see and feel their love for one another. Robert, well, he's Robert. Typical straight man mentality. All in all this is one film very worth watching and is very finely acted.

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

This is one of the worst Gay or Lesbian movies I have ever seen!One cliche after another right down to horribly offensive stereotypes of both gay male and African Americans. The gay male characters are Badly acted, simpering wimpering, the black maid is right out of an Amos and Andy TV show. The only characters that seem even remotely believeable are the Lesbian characters, and even they are a stretch. The end of course features a simply awful black church choir (How's that for a stereotype in a movie)singing one of dem good ol gopel songs. Do not rent this movie!