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It's not about a hurricane. It's about America.
It's not about a hurricane. It's about America.
Documentary - 2008
Trouble the Water
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7.3
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"Trouble the Water" takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall--just blocks away from the French Quarter but far from the New Orleans that most tourists knew. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, is turning her new video camera on herself and her Ninth Ward neighbors trapped in the city. Weaving an insider's view of Katrina with a mix of verité and in-your-face filmmaking, it is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes--two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.
Director:
,
Tia Lessin
,
Carl Deal
Cast:
,
George W. Bush
,
Michael Brown
,
Julie Chen
,
Scott Rogers
,
Ray Nagin
,
Brian Nobles
,
Wink Rivers
,
Scott Roberts

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Rated:
Unrated
Runtime:
93 min
Release date:
20 Jan 2008
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 14 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
'God's gonna trouble the water,' goes the chorus from the African-American spiritual that gives Trouble the Water its title, but no deity is to blame for the tide of bureaucratic bungling and inhumanity the movie reveals.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
13 Feb 2009
fresh:
The person at the centre emerges as a force of nature unto herself. Meet, and prepare to be inspired by, Kimberly Rivers Roberts.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
12 Feb 2009
fresh:
Essential, startling and distressing insight into what it was like to be in the eye of the Katrina storm if you were a poor, black resident of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans on Monday August 29 2005.
– Wally Hammond,
Time Out,
5 Dec 2008
fresh:
You can't help wanting -- and maybe needing -- to read into her indomitable spiritedness something like a reason for hope. For her, for other Katrina survivors, for all of us.
– Joe Leydon,
Houston Chronicle,
31 Oct 2008
fresh:
It's not quite a Grapes of Wrath for our times, but Trouble the Water does give a voice to people America didn't see or listen to before Katrina.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
22 Oct 2008
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