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Trouble the Water
Directed by
Carl Deal
,
Tia Lessin
Not Rated
2008
1h 33m
Documentary
7.3
96%
87%
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A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning.
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Cast of Trouble the Water
Scott Rogers
Self
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Michael Brown
Self (archive footage)
Julie Chen
Self - Reporter (archive footage)
Ray Nagin
Self (archive footage)
Brian Nobles
Self
Wink Rivers
Self
Scott Roberts
Self
Larry Sims
Self - Resident
Shepard Smith
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Kimberly Rivers Roberts
Self
Carl Deal
Director / Producer
Tia Lessin
Director / Producer
Trouble the Water Ratings & Reviews
Houston Chronicle
Joe Leydon
You can't help wanting -- and maybe needing -- to read into her indomitable spiritedness something like a reason for hope. For her, for other Katrina survivors, for all of us.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
More than most documentaries, this mosaiclike movie is made up of many pieces, and it's considerably more than the sum of those parts.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Trouble the Water is a crucial film, one of the best of the decade.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
A tale of natural and civic catastrophe, Trouble the Water is also a frank yet inspired saga about poverty, survival and what lies beyond.
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
Trouble the Water is choppy, overly long and at times almost indecipherable, but it's indelible.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Roberts needs more practice at holding the camera steady and framing shots. It doesn't matter. We feel her footage at the base of our spines.
The New Yorker
David Denby
Trouble the Water, along with Spike Lee's extraordinary four-hour epic, When the Levees Broke, remains one of the most eloquent records we have of a tragedy that brought out some of the most impressively alive men and women in New O
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Is there more to be said about this national catastrophe? Yes, definitely, as the engrossing documentary Trouble the Water shows in just about every frame.
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal have fashioned a deeply moving story of resilience and redemption.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Essential, unique viewing: a stunning experience of the hurricane and its aftermath, rooted in immediate personal response and emotions that encapsulate the full national catastrophe.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
More than a keenly dramatic look at how this country treats the poor and dispossessed. It's also a film that was hijacked by its subjects. They saw an opportunity, they took it, and the grand jury prize at Sundance was the result.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Using mostly amateur video shot by an aspiring rap artist and her husband in the lead-up to Hurricane Katrina and in the weeks after, this gripping, sometimes unstructured doc shows the devastation New Orleans residents suffered in the swirl of the storm.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
I thought Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke was pretty much the last word on the national tragedy and disgrace that followed Hurricane Katrina's assault on New Orleans. Maybe not.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Trouble The Water is infuriating in its depiction of helpless Americans getting left behind, and uplifting in the way it shows the Roberts putting their lives together.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A spellbinder you do not want to miss.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
Trouble the Water is most worthy of all praise, accolade and recognition...If such celebration translated into box office receipts, this extraordinary little movie would be The Dark Knight of documentaries.
Newsday
John Anderson
Brilliant melding of first-person footage, heart, and directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's documentary expertise.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
What Lessin and Deal provide is a considered structure that places Roberts' footage within a larger social and emotional context as part of a self-defined life, in which Hurricane Katrina was both tragedy and opportunity.
New York Press
Simon Abrams
An impressive document of devotion that miraculously stems from still-festering pain.
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