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...caps have melted, and the world is a vast briny sea. Most people live in giant docking stations, atolls, built on water. Prowling the sea like Poseidon's angels are the Smokers, bad guys led by the one-eyed Deacon (Dennis Hopper). The Smokers are looking for Enola (Tina Majorino), a 10-year-old with a map tattoo that may point the way to dry land. With her guardian Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn), the girl hitches a ride on the trimaran of an outsider--part man, part fish--known as the Mariner (Costner). If anyone in this scurvy world can help...
...Tina Majorino is the only actor who really shines in this movie, and it will be to her credit if the movie succeeds in the box office. As Molly Singer, she misses her mother desperately but finds a quick affection for Corrina, the only person who is able to bring her out of her self-imposed muteness. Majorino exudes the sadness, the confusion, the innocence and the joy of what it means to be a child. Majorino made her film debut opposite Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia in "When a Man Loves a Woman." This film proves that...
...tell she thinks about the situations her character is in and intelligently communicates in through her expressive face. Majorino inevitably reminds me of another Shirley Temple. Cute, funny, while capable of serious emotion, I only hope she is able to break the glass ceiling which prevents so many childhood actors from continuing with their careers...
With the mechanism of the child supported by Majorino's entertaining portrayal, the film might provoke little kids to consider the subject of race. But it ultimately leaves an insincere and unrealistic view for children to consider. If the director Jessie Nelson had made the film either more imaginative and sustained molly's vantage point, or made it more serious, giving it a more realistic ending, then the film would be better. As it is, it sits the fence between imagination and reality, and as a result settles for mediocrity...
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