Naturalessence This movie Lifetime TV during the week that hurricane Katrina ravished the Louisiana coastline. Usually, when I watch these movies, I just watch them. But this particular day, it made me cry when the military brought the tanker truck in with water on the back and all the citizens were turning the truck over to get to the bottles of water. Even when the bottles were bursting on the ground, and the dog was licking it up out of the cracks of the sidewalk, art just imitated life a little too close for me that day.Other than that, I found it quite interesting (for a Lifetime movie.) Usually, they include some rich, white woman whose perfect life is shattered by a horrible secret, a best friend who sleeps with their husband, or and evil child they gave up years ago who has returned very bitter.

Christian Andersen This disaster movie is not like other disaster movies. Other disaster movies tend to follow a very rigid structure and not stray from it.First we meet the primary characters and we get to know them through scenes of "everyday life".Then the secondary characters whose "lives will be changed forever" are introduced.Lastly the "enemy" is introduced. Mostly in the form of the mighty bureaucrat who won't evacuate the city or close the beaches or whatever.This movie introduces one secondary character and uses tertiary characters for all the "unwashed masses" who are just supposed to die anyway. This enables the movie to concentrate on the efforts of the hero(es) to fix the situation and not have to show a lot of pointless drivel about dogs trapped in rain pipes and children being caught under buses.Plus, the characters are actually well drawn and the story is somewhat believable.I was entertained for an hour and a half and that's really the point, right?

ShellyM Thirst was a fast paced medical thriller about an all too possible threat to one of earth's most precious resources - water. All the characters are sympathetic, with the notable exception of the Mayor (there are those who would happily force cryptosporidium infected water down his throat) and the subject is handled realistically. The actors, both male and female are convincing in their roles, particularly Adam Arkin who plays Robert Miller.A movie well worth seeing

LAC-2 Thirst seemed to be just another disaster movie. Our hero of the story, knowing the extreme danger and threat to the welfare of his family, should have gotten them out of town before the quarantine. The plant manager was incompetent as far as politics are concerned. Why didn't he know where the $15,000,000 went? The mayor was the biggest joke of the entire movie. A liar, a swindler, a finger pointer from the beginning. Sounds like another true politician to me. He should have been run out of town on a rail.