Movie Details
Theatrical Release:October 1st, 1980
On DVD & Blu-ray:January 7th, 2003
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Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Renée Gundelach
Production Companies:Basis-Film-Verleih GmbH
Lightning Over Water (1980)
Audience Score
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 (1983) 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.
