Water's Edge |  | Director: Harvey Kahn
Actors: Nathan Fillion, Chandra West, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ralph J. Alderman, Daniel Baldwin
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 36913
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D1140D
ISBN: 1594351341
UPC: 031398114048
EAN: 9781594351341
ASIN: B0000UJL3W
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: January 27, 2004
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 First rate acting January 4, 2008
Film Fan (Wilmington, NC USA)
I stumbled across this movie and had just seen Fillion in Waitress. I enjoyed his acting for the second time. His stiff 'professional man in love' act was great in Waitress and his 'average man with moral compass and responsibility to his fellow man' act was right on target in this movie Waters Edge as well. I like watching an actor who can be an every man in many different stories. The story kept me intrigued enough to be entertained and I do hope to see Fillion make it big as he ages.
 Are you guys CRAZY? January 4, 2007
C. Staudt
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
**SPOILER ALERT**
This was truly one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The dialogue was beyond bad - it was absolute cliche, not believable at all, and often outright laughable. I'm not sure which was worse: the characters or the plot they snooze-walked through. Nathan Fillion (who was the draw for me - like others I was a fan of his from Firefly, Serenity, and Buffy) was the only positive, and even he seemed embarassed by some of the lines he had to speak. I kept laughing at how often he instructed his wife to pack clothes after he had killed the sheriff. Like, you've murdered someone, hopefully for the first time in your life, and your main concern is whether or not your favorite khakis get left behind??
Emanuelle Vaugier is absolutely terrible. I realize she's playing a duplicitous role, but she doesn't give a single authentic expression, action, or line of dialogue. She goes from abused victim to skinny-dipping seductress within a five minute timespan (perhaps this is the appeal for some of the other reviewers?). Her "acting" was some of the worst I've seen in awhile...
Unless you're a genuine masochist or a SERIOUS Fillion fan, avoid this movie. It'll make you laugh and cry, but for all the wrong reasons...
 "Firefly" fans will watch this for Nathan Fillion and they will not find much more than him April 3, 2006
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Robert (Nathan Fillion) and Molly Graves (Chandra West) are trying to keep it together after the death of their young daughter. He is a writing who is now unable to write anything, and so the couple end up at his late father's cabin in the small rural community of Reedsville. Molly is haunted by a terrible dream and is doing a bit more than contemplating suicide. Finding that Molly has loaded his father's old shotgun, Robert takes the gun and run out of the hunting cabin into the woods. This seemed like a good idea at the time, but in the woods he stumbles across a strange scene: A sheriff has dragged a handcuffed young woman out of his cop car in the middle of the forest and is about to kill her. Robert intervenes, which means he and Molly are suddenly up to their necks in the cesspool of small town corruption.
Robert has saved the life of Rae Baines (Emmanuelle Vaugier), and of course he wants to know why the sheriff was about to bash her head in with a rock. An explanation is not forthcoming, and Robert's suspicions are aroused when he discovers $200,000 and some lewd photographs of Rae in the sheriff's car. Clearly there is something rotten going on in Reedsville and since they are in the middle of nowhere, Robert has nobody he can trust. This actually works out because apparently nobody in Reedsville is trustworthy, from Mayor Block (Daniel Baldwin) on down. But Robert and Molly are in way over their heads. At least their martial problems no longer seem that that important.
Obviously the main attraction for this 2003 direct to DVD movie is Nathan Fillion, who has a legion of fans because of his starring role on Joss Whedon's "Firefly," which translated into the theatrical film "Serenity." But unless you harbor dreams that he is going to show up on your doorstep and propose to you out of a clear blue sky, this is clearly a rental. Fillion and West both provide fine performances, but Vaugier cannot carry off the shifts required to keep stirring up the plot in this one. Fortunately, the rest of the characters keep things fairly low-keyed, so things never descend into caricature, but the initial set up slowly descends into fairly standard action, including a gunfight where people are shooting in and out of a house without bothering to use the windows. Except for a handful of trailers there are no special features on this DVD, which just reinforces that "Water's Edge" is essentially a curiosity for Fillion's fans.
Only if you're a die-hard Fillion fan... January 7, 2006
EmpireX
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought this movie for one reason: to view more of Nathan Fillion's work. I was impressed with his work on Firefly and Serenity, (impeccable comedic timing) as well as his turn as Caleb in season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I thought I'd check out what I could of what is, quite unfortunately, his short filmography.
Water's Edge started out interesting enough; the back-story of the drowned daughter was at first compelling, as well as the wife's depression, but that got lost once the action ensued. The plot was unoriginal and full of holes. The script itself was seriously lacking in depth. The dialogue was unoriginal. It wasn't hard to see where the film was headed and throughout the viewing I felt that I'd seen it all before, albeit with different actors and a different title.
Daniel Baldwin managed to prove that he was somehow overlooked when they passed out the talent in his family. He was so stereo-typically villainous, I half expected him to start twirling his mustache... and don't miss his Evil Laugh at the end of the movie. Same thing with the Sheriff... so very villainous, my friend and I busted out laughing when he died... perhaps the funniest death-scene ever! Other inappropriate laughter broke out when Emmanuelle Vaugier finally opened her mouth to speak. I don't know if it was the wooden dialogue, or just bad acting (I'm leaning towards the latter), but that scene where Rae is sitting on the couch just after she wakes up... "No! No!" The inflection of each line was exactly the same and it sounded so ridiculous, I couldn't help but laugh! Chandra West's performance was marginally better than Vaugier's, but it too felt slightly wooden and contrived. West's only scene that I took notice of was the one where Molly tells Rae about cutting her hair and how their daughter used to wind Molly's hair around her fingers.
The one saving grace of this film was Nathan Fillion himself. We would have turned the movie off after the first half hour, if not for him. It's a shame that Fillion's time and talent was wasted on such a god-awful film, but it's a credit to him that he gave a genuine and earnest performance in spite of a bad script, sub-par direction, and embarrassingly bad actors. He managed to give poorly written dialogue a great measure of depth. Poor Mr. Fillion. Sometimes you just have to pay the rent, I guess. I would have given the flick 2 stars, except that the Captain is awesome and he deserves a big ol' star just for himself. Rock on, Fillion, rock on.
 Better than expected October 24, 2005
Randall Richmond (Santa Rosa, CA United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this disc because I was interested in seeing Nathan Fillion in a different role than his FIREFLY/SERENITY Captain Reynolds. I assumed it was going to be one of those cliche ridden B movies that are easily forgotten. Wrong. This was an excellent "non cliche ridden" movie that should have had a larger audience. All the actors were well cast, and the acting level was as good as most A movies - and the writing was well above average - all in all a disc worth purchasing.
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