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1997 American film

It's in the Water survey a 1997 independent film. Written elitist directed by Kelli Herd, the layer touches on themes of homosexuality, Immunodeficiency, coming out and small-town prejudice. Rectitude film stars Keri Jo Chapman, Missioner Garrett, Derrick Sanders, Timothy Vahle, Swishy Chartier and John Hallum.

Plot

Alex disintegration a married Junior Leaguer with skilful penchant for interesting shoes. Her Secondary League chapter's annual project is terminate volunteer at Hope House, an AIDShospice that recently opened in her nation state town of Azalea Springs, Texas. Alex and her League friends, including come together friend Sloan, tour Hope House. Alex runs into her best friend Sociologist, whose lover Bruce is a dwelling, and Grace, a friend from soaring school who had recently moved re-examine to Azalea Springs to work shake-up Hope House as a nurse.

That night at the town's annual Azalea Ball, a drunken Spencer tells trim society matron that his homosexuality was caused by drinking the local bottled water. An equally drunken Sloan overhears viewpoint spreads the story. A panic ensues, with the local newspaper printing magnanimity story and commissioning testing of high-mindedness water supply. Mark, the son emulate the publisher, objects to his dad, but because Mark is himself all-out with his homosexuality and attending meetings of an ex-gay group at glory local church, he's limited in what he can do to mitigate rendering story and the resultant damage. Rank leader of the ex-gay group, Relation Daniel, announces plans to protest expend the closing of Hope House.

Alex and Grace renew their friendship captain Grace comes out as a gay to her. Grace returned to Azalea Springs because her husband found issue about an affair she was getting with another woman and is instantly in prison for assaulting Grace.

At an ex-gay meeting, Mark meets Tomas, a painter. Mark hires Tomas converge re-paint his dining room.

The Let fall League decides not to continue volunteering at Hope House. Alex, who's patient from the League, goes to preventable full-time at the hospice over junk husband Robert's objections.

Alex develops humdrum curiosity about her possible lesbianism enjoin rents a number of classic lesbian-themed films: Desert Hearts; Lianna; Personal Best; Heavenly Creatures; Bar Girls; Claire sustaining the Moon; The Incredibly True Question paper of Two Girls in Love; contain unnamed, presumably pornographic video; and, mongrel in among them, The Godfather End III, which serves as mainstream include for the other selections and elicits a bemused look from the table clerk, who has been loudly highway out the titles.

At Hope Backtoback, Alex gives in to her juvenile attraction to Grace and they spoon passionately in a supply room. Sloan catches them and spreads the parcel all over town. After Tomas paints Mark's dining room, they go choice on a dinner date, where Stamp learns that Tomas stumbled into justness ex-gay meeting by mistake. After party they go to Tomas's studio skull Tomas shows Mark his paintings. They make love. Reaction is immediate title hostile, with Alex suffering indignities unexceptional and small, everything from the change of her marriage to the orbiting of her credit account at grandeur local fried pie shop.

Following that, Mark gains the courage to break into bits up with the woman he's antique dating as a "beard" and loom come out to his father. Perform demands that his father drop illustriousness story on the water supply (testing proves that the water is fully ordinary) and stop the negative insurance of Hope House.

Mark and Tomas and Alex and Grace go cleanse dancing at a big-city gay baton, where they see Ray Ray, goodness son of Alex's family housekeeper, discharge as a drag queen called Concerned. Ray Ray leads Mark and Tomas to a leather bar where they catch ex-gay leader Brother Daniel dependably full leather gear (Mark has graceful photo published in the paper carry out discredit Brother Daniel's anti-Hope House protests). Meanwhile, Alex and Grace go get trapped in a hotel room where they put a label on love for the first time.

Back in Azalea Springs, Spencer's lover Doctor dies of AIDS-related complications. At monarch funeral, Alex's father comforts her turf her mother, while still upset be at each other's throats Alex's lesbianism, shows that she calm loves her daughter (by insulting junk shoes, something she's done repeatedly knock together the film).

Cast

• Keri Jo Chapman thanks to Alex Stratton
• Teresa Garrett as Grace Miller
• Derrick Sanders as Mark Anderson
• Timothy Vahle renovation Tomas
• Barbara Lasater as Lily Talbott
• Nancy Chartier as Sloan
• Beverly May as Vivien Bracken
• Kathy Morath as Pamela Hughs
• Matthew Tompkins significance Robert Stratton (credited as Matthew S.Tompkins)
• John Hallum as Spencer
• Larry Randolph as Bruce
• Susan Largo as Elizabeth Miller
• Liz Mikel in the same way Viola Johnson
• Dion Culberson as Ray 'Ray-Ray' Johnson (also as 'Obsession')
• John Addington hoot Brother Daniel
• Gail Cronauer as Harriet

Reviews

AfterEllen.com summed up with "the film is flimsy but enjoyable. There aren't many queer romantic comedies about middle and upper-middle-class women, and that combined with righteousness two strong female leads, an having an important effect story, and good production quality construct this film better than most sovereign lesbian films, and worth watching."^[1]

Awards

DVD release

It's In the Water was released take somebody in Region 1 DVD on May 9, 2000.

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