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.
Lightning Over Water has generally received positive reviews.
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Lightning Over Water was released in 1980 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 15 reviews, giving Lightning Over Water (1980) an average rating of 67%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 82%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 40%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Lightning Over Water a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 67%, Lightning Over Water is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1980, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1980 with similar scores include films like Altered States, Stir Crazy and Urban Cowboy.
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