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    Water (1985)

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    British comedy-writing legends Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais wrote this funny satire about West Indies-style politics and the decline of British colonialism in the Thatcher Era. Elements of the story were also inspired by the 1982 Falklands conflict (when Argentina invaded the British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean).

    Set on a fictional Caribbean island (Cascara) owned by Britain but largely left to its own devices, the story centres around the discovery of a lucrative resource – the natural mineral water of the title – and the reaction of people on the island and other nations.

    Location shooting for the fictional British Caribbean colony of Cascara took place in the real former British Caribbean colony of St. Lucia in the West Indies.

    The stand-out cast features Brits Leonard Rossiter, Billy Connolly, Maureen Lipman and Fulton Mackay and Americans Valerie Perrine, Fred Gwynne, Ruby Wax and Jimmie Walker.

    The charity rock band featured at the end of the movie – The Singing Rebels – features George Harrison (whose Handmade Films produced the movie), Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and Jon Lord (of Deep Purple).

    Baxter
    Michael Caine
    Pamela
    Valerie Perrine
    Dolores
    Brenda Vaccaro
    Sir Malcolm
    Leonard Rossiter
    Delgado
    Billy Connolly
    Rob
    Dennis Dugan
    Eric
    Fulton Mackay
    Jay Jay
    Jimmie Walker
    Deke Halliday
    Dick Shawn
    Spender
    Fred Gwynne
    Pepito
    Trevor Laird
    Garfield
    Chris Tummings
    Nado
    Kelvin Omard
    Miguel
    Oscar James
    Ken
    Charles Thomas Murphy
    Sarah
    Felicity Dean
    Ben
    William Hootkins
    Charlesworth
    Alan Shearman
    Hollister
    Bill Bailey
    Foreign Secretary
    Richard Pearson
    Prime Minister
    Maureen Lipman
    Kessler
    Paul Heiney
    UN Secretary-General
    Rashid Karapiet
    Pierre
    Alfred Molina
    Spenco Executive
    Ruby Wax

    Director
    Dick Clement

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