The Waterdance is a 1992 American drama film directed by Neal Jimenez and Michael Steinberg and starring Eric Stoltz, Wesley Snipes, William Forsythe, and Helen Hunt.

The title refers to a dream recounted by Raymond Hill, Snipes's character, about dancing on the surface of a lake.

[3] In a review that awarded three and a half stars out of four, Roger Ebert praised Stoltz's acting and commented, "'The Waterdance' is about the everyday process of continuing one's life under a tragically altered set of circumstances.

Stoltz, an actor who has seldom exhibited anything but genial blandness, uses this temperament to good effect here as Joel, a man who tempers the bitterness he feels over what's happened to him with benign acceptance.

Snipes and Forsythe are both superb as the two fellow travelers in wheelchairs whom Joel befriends in the ward; their emoting is so real you often forget they're actors.