Where the River Runs Black

Except for Mr. Durning, who is not called on to exert hmself, the acting is as elementary as the screenplay.

The movie sags beneath a phony lyricism -- slow-motion shots of water droplets, close-ups of Rabelo's innocent moon face, and post-card-pretty nature photography.

Here is a fable with the most unlikely ingredients, and yet, like all fables, it will work if we allow it to.

Concerns the clash between Indian and white cultures, the low tolerance of organized religion, and the bonds which can be established between dolphins and human beings