Trouble the Water

Categories: Movies | Entertainment | Oscars 2009
  • Trouble the Water is a documentary film by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal that shows a couple struggling to survive after Hurricane Katrina. The film received a nomination for an Academy Award in 2009 for Best Documentary Feature, but the Oscar was awarded to Man on Wire.
  • Background

    Aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott document life during and after Hurricane Katrina. The film chronicles their life over 2 years after the storm along, showing viewers their anger, fear and disappointment in how the storm was handled.
  • Reviews

    "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."—Joe Leydon of the Houston ChronicleHouston Chronicle: Trouble the Water Review (October 30, 2008)

    "The footage – edited and augmented by Michael Moore’s collaborators Tia Lessin and Carl Deal – is unpolished, but the stories and commentary are as inspirational as they are harrowing."—Wendy Ide of the Times OnlineTimes Online: Trouble the Water Review (December 4, 2008)

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