Stars: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter, Don Harvey

Director: Kevin Reynolds

Summary: A fast-paced adventure set in a future time where Earth is covered in water and the human race struggles to survive in dilapidated boats and makeshift floating cities.

In a flooded future Earth, people cling to manmade floating islands for survival. When a tyrannical madman (Dennis Hopper) driving a supertanker over the world in search of 'dry land' invades one of these islands, a mysterious wanderer named the 'Mariner' (Kevin Costner) rescues a woman and her adopted daughter from the slaughter and together they embark on a quest that could save mankind.

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Let's be honest: this 1995 epic isn't nearly as bad as its negative publicity led us to expect. At the time, Waterworldwas the most expensive Hollywood production in history (it had a Titanic-sized 200 million US dollars budget), and the film arrived in cinemas with so much controversy and negative gossip that it was an easy target for ridicule. The movie itself, a flawed but enjoyable post-apocalypse thriller, deserves better. Waterworldstars Kevin Costner as the Mariner, a lone maverick with gills and webbed feet who navigates the endless seas of Earth after the complete melting of the polar ice caps. The Mariner has been caged like a criminal when he's freed by Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and enlisted to help her and a young girl (Tina Majorino) escape from the Smokers, a group of renegade terrorists led by Dennis Hopper in yet another memorably villainous role. It is too bad the predictable script isn't more intelligent, but as a companion piece to The Road Warrior, this seafaring stunt-fest is adequately impressive. --Jeff Shannon

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Production Notes, Cast And Filmmakers Biographies, Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Year:	1995
Release Date:	May 31, 2002
Runtime:	130 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	903 048 9
Keywords:	Action, General, Wide, Screen, Adventure, Waterworld
Genre:	Action/Adventure