Reaction is immediate and hostile, with Alex suffering indignities great and small, everything from the breakup of her marriage to the closing of her credit account at the local fried pie shop.įollowing this, Mark gains the courage to break up with the woman he's been dating as a " beard" and to come out to his father. After dinner they go to Tomas's studio and Tomas shows Mark his paintings. After Tomas paints Mark's dining room, they go out on a dinner date, where Mark learns that Tomas stumbled into the ex-gay meeting by mistake. Sloan catches them and spreads the story all over town. Alex, who's resigned from the League, goes to work full-time at the hospice over her husband Robert's objections.Īlex develops some curiosity about her possible lesbianism and rents a number of classic lesbian-themed films: Desert Hearts Lianna Personal Best Heavenly Creatures Bar Girls Claire of the Moon The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love an unnamed, presumably pornographic video and, mixed in among them, The Godfather Part III, which serves as mainstream cover for the other selections and elicits a bemused look from the counter clerk, who has been loudly reading out the titles.Īt Hope House, Alex gives in to her growing attraction to Grace and they kiss passionately in a supply room. The Junior League decides not to continue volunteering at Hope House. Mark hires Tomas to re-paint his dining room. Grace returned to Azalea Springs because her husband found out about an affair she was having with another woman and is now in prison for assaulting Grace.Īt an ex-gay meeting, Mark meets Tomas, a painter. The leader of the ex-gay group, Brother Daniel, announces plans to protest for the closing of Hope House.Īlex and Grace renew their friendship and Grace comes out as a lesbian to her. Mark, the son of the publisher, objects to his father, but because Mark is himself struggling with his homosexuality and attending meetings of an ex-gay group at the local church, he's limited in what he can do to mitigate the story and the resultant damage. A panic ensues, with the local newspaper printing the story and commissioning testing of the water supply. An equally drunken Sloan overhears and spreads the story. That night at the town's annual Azalea Ball, a drunken Spencer tells a society matron that his homosexuality was caused by drinking the local water. Alex runs into her best friend Spencer, whose lover Bruce is a resident, and Grace, a friend from high school who had recently moved back to Azalea Springs to work at Hope House as a nurse. Alex and her League friends, including her friend Sloan, tour Hope House. Her Junior League chapter's annual project is to volunteer at Hope House, an AIDS hospice that recently opened in her home town of Azalea Springs, Texas. The film stars Keri Jo Chapman, Teresa Garrett, Derrick Sanders, Timothy Vahle, Nancy Chartier and John Hallum.Īlex is a married Junior Leaguer with a penchant for interesting shoes. Written and directed by Kelli Herd, the film touches on themes of homosexuality, AIDS, coming out and small-town prejudice. It's in the Water is a 1997 independent film.
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