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• 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.

• Fast Facts

  1. Premiere: August 22, 2008
  2. Won the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize
  3. Director: Carl Deal
  4. Producer: Danny GloverRecordnet.com: Danny Glover to Visit Pacific (January 23, 2009)
  5. Running time: 90 minutes
  6. Box office earnings: $146,384Rotten Tomatoes: Trouble the Water Numbers
  7. Tagline: It's not about a hurricane. It's about America.
  8. MPAA rating: Unrated

• 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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  2008 Sundance winners | Frozen River | Sundance Lineup | Sundance Film Festival | Hurricane Katrina | New Orleans | Louisiana | Oscar Nominations 2009 | Danny Glover

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