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Learning
Difficulties Major 
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TITLE |
Full
Moon in Blue Water (1988) |
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DISABILITY |
General
Alzheimers Learning Difficulty |
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Floyd (Gene
Hackman) runs a bar on an off-shore island in |
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Texas. His
wife has drowned a year ago and he's given up on |
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life. His
father-in-law lives with him and has Alzheimer's and |
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is in a
wheelchair. He is looked after by a local man with |
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Despite a
good cast the film doesn't really gel. The story a bit |
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cliched with
someone wanting to buy the bar run by Hackman |
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because a
bridge is going to be built to the island. And of |
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course the
bar is in financial difficulties. A young woman who |
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works at the
bar offers to lend/give him money. But his plan is |
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to burn the
place down. Then his wife's remains are |
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discovered
and he has identify them. |
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There are
many quirky characters and incidents but they don't |
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add up to
much. A young man with learning difficulties who |
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has just
come out of mental hospital works for him and |
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carries a
.22 gun. At one point he accidentally pushes Floyd's |
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wheelchair
using father-in-law into the sea. Thinking the old |
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man dead he
panics. But then the old man rises from the |
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A good sense
of place and some good acting is spoiled by the numerous
hectic incidents. |
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Notes
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