The Waterdance
| The Waterdance | |
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Theatrical release poster | |
| 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 |
| Box office | $1,723,319 (United States) |
The Waterdance is a 1992 American comedy-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 paraplegic 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.