Lightning Over Water

6.6

/10

1h 31mDocumentary

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.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... Read more

Starring Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray, Susan Ray, Tom Farrell, Ronee Blakley

Watch "Lightning Over Water" on Criterion Channel released in 1980. It's a documentary movie, and has a rating of 6.6 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.