Product Details

• Actors: Nathan Fillion, Chandra West, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ralph Alderman, Daniel Baldwin
• Directors: Harvey Kahn
• Writers: Craig Brewer
• Producers: Harvey Kahn, Carole Curb Nemoy, Ken Lawson, Ruth Epstein
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: January 27, 2004
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000UJL3W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,345 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Water's Edge" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only if you're a die-hard Fillion fan..., January 7, 2006

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This review is from: Water's Edge (DVD)

I bought this movie for one reason: to view more of Nathan Fillion's work. I was impressed with his work on Firefly and Serenity, (impeccable comedic timing) as well as his turn as Caleb in season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I thought I'd check out what I could of what is, quite unfortunately, his short filmography.
Water's Edge started out interesting enough; the back-story of the drowned daughter was at first compelling, as well as the wife's depression, but that got lost once the action ensued. The plot was unoriginal and full of holes. The script itself was seriously lacking in depth. The dialogue was unoriginal. It wasn't hard to see where the film was headed and throughout the viewing I felt that I'd seen it all before, albeit with different actors and a different title.
Daniel Baldwin managed to prove that he was somehow overlooked when they passed out the talent in his family. He was so stereo-typically villainous, I half expected him to start twirling his mustache... and don't miss his Evil Laugh at the end of the movie. Same thing with the Sheriff... so very villainous, my friend and I busted out laughing when he died... perhaps the funniest death-scene ever! Other inappropriate laughter broke out when Emmanuelle Vaugier finally opened her mouth to speak. I don't know if it was the wooden dialogue, or just bad acting (I'm leaning towards the latter), but that scene where Rae is sitting on the couch just after she wakes up... "No! No!" The inflection of each line was exactly the same and it sounded so ridiculous, I couldn't help but laugh! Chandra West's performance was marginally better than Vaugier's, but it too felt slightly wooden and contrived. West's only scene that I took notice of was the one where Molly tells Rae about cutting her hair and how their daughter used to wind Molly's hair around her fingers.
The one saving grace of this film was Nathan Fillion himself. We would have turned the movie off after the first half hour, if not for him. It's a shame that Fillion's time and talent was wasted on such a god-awful film, but it's a credit to him that he gave a genuine and earnest performance in spite of a bad script, sub-par direction, and embarrassingly bad actors. He managed to give poorly written dialogue a great measure of depth. Poor Mr. Fillion. Sometimes you just have to pay the rent, I guess. I would have given the flick 2 stars, except that the Captain is awesome and he deserves a big ol' star just for himself. Rock on, Fillion, rock on.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Firefly" fans will watch this for Nathan Fillion and they will not find much more than him, April 3, 2006

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Water's Edge (DVD)

Robert (Nathan Fillion) and Molly Graves (Chandra West) are trying to keep it together after the death of their young daughter. He is a writing who is now unable to write anything, and so the couple end up at his late father's cabin in the small rural community of Reedsville. Molly is haunted by a terrible dream and is doing a bit more than contemplating suicide. Finding that Molly has loaded his father's old shotgun, Robert takes the gun and run out of the hunting cabin into the woods. This seemed like a good idea at the time, but in the woods he stumbles across a strange scene: A sheriff has dragged a handcuffed young woman out of his cop car in the middle of the forest and is about to kill her. Robert intervenes, which means he and Molly are suddenly up to their necks in the cesspool of small town corruption.

Robert has saved the life of Rae Baines (Emmanuelle Vaugier), and of course he wants to know why the sheriff was about to bash her head in with a rock. An explanation is not forthcoming, and Robert's suspicions are aroused when he discovers $200,000 and some lewd photographs of Rae in the sheriff's car. Clearly there is something rotten going on in Reedsville and since they are in the middle of nowhere, Robert has nobody he can trust. This actually works out because apparently nobody in Reedsville is trustworthy, from Mayor Block (Daniel Baldwin) on down. But Robert and Molly are in way over their heads. At least their martial problems no longer seem that that important.

Obviously the main attraction for this 2003 direct to DVD movie is Nathan Fillion, who has a legion of fans because of his starring role on Joss Whedon's "Firefly," which translated into the theatrical film "Serenity." But unless you harbor dreams that he is going to show up on your doorstep and propose to you out of a clear blue sky, this is clearly a rental. Fillion and West both provide fine performances, but Vaugier cannot carry off the shifts required to keep stirring up the plot in this one. Fortunately, the rest of the characters keep things fairly low-keyed, so things never descend into caricature, but the initial set up slowly descends into fairly standard action, including a gunfight where people are shooting in and out of a house without bothering to use the windows. Except for a handful of trailers there are no special features on this DVD, which just reinforces that "Water's Edge" is essentially a curiosity for Fillion's fans.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than expected, October 23, 2005

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Randall Richmond (Santa Rosa, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Water's Edge (DVD)

I bought this disc because I was interested in seeing Nathan Fillion in a different role than his FIREFLY/SERENITY Captain Reynolds. I assumed it was going to be one of those cliche ridden B movies that are easily forgotten. Wrong. This was an excellent "non cliche ridden" movie that should have had a larger audience. All the actors were well cast, and the acting level was as good as most A movies - and the writing was well above average - all in all a disc worth purchasing.