It's In the Water
Kelli Herd, director.
USA, 1996, 35mm, 100 min.

Azalea Springs is a white Texas paradise only a short limo-ride from Peyton Place and Stepford. Everyone is rich, the men are rugged and the women have big hair. Yet scrape a perfectly manicured fingernail over the veneer and underneath lies a seething hotbed of lesbianism and homosexuality.

Guilty gays meet at Brother Daniel's Turn or Burn Homo-No-Mo meetings, whilst the ladies who lunch seem to have a dissenting voice among their members. Then, at a charity do, a rumour spreads that there's something in the water that turns people queer.

Kelli Herd's debut feature is a hilarious joy, and the cast - especially Keri Jo Chapman as divine Alex, and Barbara Lasater as her Lana-Turner-on-acid mother - are sublime. It's In the Water is much more than a satire on American right-wing values, it's a very rare animal indeed: a feel-good movie about, and for, both lesbians and gay men!

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