Waterproof | 
 enlarge | Director: Barry Berman
Actors: Whitman Mayo, April Grace, Burt Reynolds, Cordereau Dye, Brandon Crawford
Studio: Cloud Ten Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 19101
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 94
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 745638005033
EAN: 0745638005033
ASIN: B00005O5HF
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: April 29, 2008
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 Great buy! March 7, 2008
This movie is great. If you are a christian or not, this is a great movie.
One of my favorite movies December 8, 2007
I'm so thankful my in-laws gave us Waterproof as a Christmas present one year. The whole family enjoyed it. It's a great story with a fantastic ending. I've given several copies to friends and family.
Excellent Movie July 27, 2007
This was a good movie for a family to sit down and watch together. I really enjoyed the movie, but also enjoyed the commentary. So many of the actors jumped on board to do this movie because of the labor of love by the director.
Bulletproof \o/ January 1, 2007
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
This WAS my all-time favorite Christian movie (until "Facing The Giants" came along), but it's still way, way up there on my short list & I surely loves it to death ...
Sugar (Whitman Mayo) is simply delightful (& if I could find a way to bottle his super-Sugar-sweetness & sell it, I would be a rich woman right now) & (although I never could bring myself to believe that he was an old Jewish shopkeeper) I did SO thoroughly enjoy Burt Reynold's performance as Eli Zeal & the way he was able to pull the right emotion out of every single scene &, really, all the actors did such a stunning job in this movie, it's hard to find any fault ...
There's also lots of really cool behind-the-scenes features (& some will probably make you cry just as much as the movie) & I find myself having to purchase this DVD over & over again, because I keep giving it away ...
 An imperfect but uplifting film November 4, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is by far the best of all the movies that Cloud Ten Pictures has produced. The film tackles many major issues - single mothers and the difficulty they have raising their children, family secrets covered up by lies, race relations, inter-faith relations, and others - and yet manages to do so without being heavy-handed.
Wayward young son Thaniel Battle is forced by two older gang members to rob and shoot Jewish shopowner Eli Zeal (Burt Reynolds). His mother, Tyree, doesn't know what to do, so she kidnaps the wounded Zeal and drives him to her estranged family in Louisiana. There her 102-year old grandfather will nurse him back to health while Tyree decides how to keep Thaniel out of trouble with the law.
As Zeal stays with the family he begins to sense that there are some dark secrets that need to come out into the open. He goes from being the one healed to the one who instigates the healing of the Battle family as he cajoles Tyree to reveal what it is that made her leave her family so many years earlier.
From a Christian viewpoint, there are some flaws with this movie. Zeal tells a lie in order to get Tyree to tell the truth, which seems to equate to it taking to wrongs to make a right. Also, once Tyree has revealed her secret, she wants to get right with God. She does this by simply being baptized into the local church; no mention is made of her accepting Jesus Christ into her life. I mention these points only because Cloud Ten is a Christian film company. If they are going to make Christian films that present redemption, then they should make sure that those films portray the true gospel message of that redemption being available only through Christ.
In spite of these flaws, this is still a wonderful tale of restored relationships. Burt Reynolds' performance is actually the weakest among the major characters in the film; he seems to be playing a Jewish stereotype rather than an individual character. Whitman Mayo (probably best-known as Grady on the '70's sitcom "Sanford and Son", though you'll hardly recognize him at first since he shaved his beard) is a delight as the aged grandfather. The rest of the cast did a fine job with their roles, especially Ja'net Dubois and Anthony Lee. I highly recommend this film as it addresses so many important issues that are prevalent in today's society and still manages to entertain rather than only to lecture or to criticize (that is, it won't turn people off by being too preachy).
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