

Lightning Over Water
1980 · Movie · 1h 31m
Documentary
Overview
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.
Ratings
IMDb
6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes
67%
Key crew
- Nicholas RayDirector
- Wim WendersWriter
- Nicholas RayWriter
- Wim WendersDirector
Cast
- Wim WendersSelf
- Nicholas RaySelf
- Susan RaySelf
- Tom FarrellSelf
- Ronee BlakleySelf
- Gerry BammanSelf
- Pierre CottrellSelf
- Stefan CzapskySelf
- Mitch DubinSelf
- Becky JohnstonSelf
- Tom KaufmanSelf
- Pat KirckSelf
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