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Lightning Over Water (1980) Plot Summary Explained
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- 1980 · 91 mins · English
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- Starring
- Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Nicholas Ray, Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Becky Johnston
Director Nicholas Ray, facing terminal cancer, is determined to finish a last film. While Wim Wenders is shooting Hammett in Hollywood, he flies to New York to assist Ray in realizing his wish. Ray envisions a fictional story about a dying painter who sails to China seeking a cure, but they recognize the idea’s impossibility given Ray’s frail health.
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