Water

Water

PG-13 1985 · 98 min · ★ 6.1 · Adventure, Comedy

The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.

Directed by Dick Clement · Written by Bill Persky

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