Lightning Over Water
Director Nicholas Ray is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1982) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.
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HD
Documentary, Drama
1980
91 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Lightning Over Water
- Duration : 91 min
- Languages : English
- Writers : Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
- Directors : Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders min
- Imdb : 6.7 (896 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.6 (648 votes)
- Actors : Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell, Stefan Czapsky
Movie Storyline
Director Nicholas Ray is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1982) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.