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Kevin Costner was producer, uncredited director, and star of this 1995 post-apocalyptic blockbuster. The movie tells the story of a half man-half fish antihero called “The Drifter” who leads a search for land in a world covered in water. Plagued by a budget of $175 million (when will people learn that filming a movie on water will never be cheap), a 70-day filming overrun and fighting between Costner and director Kevin Reynolds who officially quit the film during post-production, saying “In future Costner should direct all his own movies. That way he can work with his favorite director and his favorite actor” Waterworld was doomed at every turn. Bad advance press set up American audiences to expect a major flop. And it was. The movie bombed at the domestic box office, bringing in only $88 million. Foreign box office sales, however, netted an overall gain for Costner and Universal Pictures.