Waterworld (1995)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Kevin Reynolds

Writers (WGA):

Peter Rader (written by) and
David Twohy (written by)

Release Date:

28 July 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Beyond the horizon lies the secret to a new beginning.

Plot:

In a future where the polar ice caps have melted and most of Earth is underwater, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl find dry land.

Plot Keywords:

Sea | Smoker | Water | Mutant | Sail

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Kevin Costner	...	Mariner
Chaim Girafi	...	Drifter (as Chaim Jeraffi)
Rick Aviles	...	Gatesman
R.D. Call	...	Enforcer
Zitto Kazann	...	Elder / Survivor
Leonardo Cimino	...	Elder
Zakes Mokae	...	Priam
Luke Ka'ili Jr.	...	Boy
Anthony DeMasters	...	Boy
Willy Petrovic	...	Boy
Jack Kehler	...	Banker
Jeanne Tripplehorn	...	Helen
Lanny Flaherty	...	Trader
Robert A. Silverman	...	Hydroholic
Gerard Murphy	...	Nord

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some intense scenes of action violence, brief nudity and language.

Runtime:

136 min | USA:176 min (director's cut)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

Brazil:12 | Australia:M | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Iceland:12 | South Korea:12 | Philippines:PG-13 | Finland:K-11 | New Zealand:M | Canada:14A | Germany:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:7 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Huntington Beach, California, USA

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

The real Exxon Valdez was repaired and renamed the Sea River Mediterranean. It is used to haul oil across the Atlantic.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Land visible on the left-hand side of the screen, just before the smokers turn up.

Quotes:

Helen: Did you see anything out there?
Mariner: See what?
Helen: An end, to all this water?
Mariner: That old woman they buried today? She found the only end there is.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Alone with Her (2006)

Soundtrack:

PETER GUNN THEME

How to boil water

Recipe for "Waterworld":

1) Take "The Road Warrior." Add water.

2) Replace Mel Gibson with Kevin Costner (which would be about like removing Errol Flynn from "Robin Hood" and replacing him with... well, Kevin Costner).

3) Give the Feral Kid a sex change operation and some manners, taking care to swap his lethal boomerang for a box of crayons.

4) Take the Gyro Captain out of his copter and put him into a balloon.

5) Stir in generous but subtle portions of liberal eco-propaganda: without using the term "global warming," have it understood that the world is flooded because of something awful "the ancients" did.

6) Add a dash of oil by making the villains a marauding gang of oilmongers living in a certain famous oil tanker.

7) Add a simultaneously anti-religious AND anti-technological zest by making sure the villains' leader (Dennis Hopper) has a pseudo-religious name (the Deacon) and gives "sermons" about "progress" and "development."

8) Add a smoky flavor by calling the villains "Smokers," not only because of their use of speedboats and jet-skis, but because of their consumption of cigarettes, which were Clinton's drug menace du jour at the time. (Exactly where these cigarettes come from, in a submerged world where no tobacco grows and paper is viewed with awe, is anybody's guess.)

9) Finally, add a pinch of Oriental spice by having the tattoo-map to Dryland rendered in Asian ideographic characters--another implied rebuff to "evil" Western culture.

10) Set oven temperature to 450 degrees and incinerate $175 million.