Gene Hackman is the owner of an ocean side bar off the coast of Texas. It seems that his wife disappeared while going for a swim a year ago. Hackman's been in a funk ever since. Burgess Meredith in yet another old coot role, is Hackman's father-in-law who is confined to a wheel chair and suffering from dementia. Elias Koteas is the caretaker for Meredith. Koteas is apparently mentally handicapped. Teri Garr is a school bus driver in love with Hackman who is trying to get him out of his funk by sleeping with him. That's about it for a story in this film.
Full Moon In Blue Water mostly reminds me of Saroyan's Time of Your Life which is also set in a rundown bar with a bunch of eccentric characters which frankly was a much better film. The trouble is that Full Moon in Blue Water doesn't have interesting characters and the interactions in the bar with the patrons aren't particularly touching or humorous. It would also seem to me that if Hackman gets to sleep with Teri Garr that sure would go a long way to getting him out of his depression.
The actors do what they can do with this story, the cinematography is very pretty but you have to be a very talented fimmaker to make a piece of whimsy like this work as a film.
The film was written by Bill Bozzone, the running time is 95 minutes.
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