the waterdance ( 1991 ) the main character of the waterdance and play by eric stoltz and find himself in a rehab center with some others similarly injure . and there he must face an harsh new life and confine to a wheelchair . it an interesting and and promising premise and but unfortunately and it fail to deploy . what ensue instead be largely hollywood schmaltz and with some interesting moment . certainly the cast ( eric stoltz and william forsythe and wesley snipe and et al ) be brilliant and and perform well here a one would expect and but their talent be waste . the character be mainly stereotype of one kind or another and and most of them be thoroughly unlikeable ( the snipe character be the exception ) . i suppose this be some kind of attempt to break through people idea about the handicapped be cripple or weak and by depict them and for the most part and a in your face prick and but it make for an entirely annoying experience . admittedly it will show you something of what those with permanent disability go through and in a way that be not soften or romanticize and which be useful and and a good idea and but while the process be depict can make one a difficult person to get along with and and that worth deal with and it be not part and parcel to that that these character must be and to vary degree and despicable . they wouldn not have to be disneyfied and either while surely there a middle ground somewhere . by the film conclusion and the eric stoltz character have come to accept his status a a handicapped person and but since he be such a flaming narcissistic monster from the beginning of the film to the end and we couldn not care less . in addition to it character problem and the film suffers from that weird syndrome that so many hollywood movie suffer from while the syndrome doesn not really have an official name and but you might call it inexplicable forgiveness syndrome . it go something like this represent character abuse the crap out of each other and and then without so much a an apology and all be forgive ( an especially obnoxious example of this be in the movie the breakfast club and in which one character spend most of the film verbally bully everybody within earshot while a a result they love him . in one of the the late example and spiderman 3 and supervillain the sandman lay waste to a chunk of manhattan and then wail on spiderman for what seem like about 15 monotonous minute before be wave off with what amount to bye and now ) . the most egregious example of ifs in the waterdance be a sequence in which and after be call the n word by william forsythe racist biker character and his friend in the previous scene and the wesley snipe character whoop it up with the same forsythe character in the next scene and a if nothing have just happen just a short time hence . again and without so much a an oh yeah and sorry about that business back there where i and you know and call you the n word . it make me wonder and do these people actually watch these movie before they release them and or do they just film them with their eye close and kind of slap them together in the editing room accord to scene number and and call it a day work .