Looking Through Water is a film about a father who invites his estranged son to compete in a fishing competition in Belize in an attempt to reconnect. Directed by Roberto Sneider — and based on the Bob Rich novels Catching Big Fish and Looking Through Water — the film opens Sept. 12.
Looking Through Water stars Michael Douglas, David Morse, Michael Stahl-David, Cameron Douglas, Ximena Romo, Tamara Tunie and Walker Scobell.
“We’re excited to bring Looking Through Water to audiences — it’s a story of healing, forgiveness and second chances, while the American pastime of fishing connects generations through water,” said Eric Woods, producer and CEO of AETH Entertainment, the production company behind the film.
Stahl-David plays a young William McKay, a hardened tycoon whose carefully built world implodes when a public betrayal at an award gala exposes a possible hostile takeover of his company. With his reputation in question, he receives an unexpected call from his estranged father, Leo (Morse), who invites him to a father-son fly-fishing fishing tournament in San Pedro, Belize.
Still seething from childhood abandonment, William agrees to meet his father. Through “clumsy casts and sharp arguments,” the pair navigate the intricacies of family relationships while rediscovering a bond neither thought possible.
Intercut with this past is the present-day story of now-older William (Michael Douglas) taking his troubled grandson, Kyle (Scobell), on a fishing trip of their own. As William shares the events of that life-changing week, he reaches out to help Kyle deal with pain, anger and the ache of broken family ties.
AETH Entertainment calls Looking Through Water a “generational drama about the scars fathers leave, the bridges sons can rebuild, and the quiet redemption found in second chances on and off the water.”
