Row Your Boat(Film, 1998)

Row Your Boat is a drama about a recently released ex-convict trying to correct his life, written and directed by Sollace Mitchell. It was produced in 1998, and released in 2001 on home video. The film stars Jon Bon Jovi, Bai Ling, and William Forsythe. Its title is taken from the English nursery rhyme "Row, Row, Row Your Boat". Bon Jovi plays Jamey Meadows, a man newly released from prison who is consequently homeless and living on the streets of New York City. Slowly, he must build his life up from the gutter, and takes a menial job as a door-to-door census taker for the government. His brother Gil, a petty criminal played by William Forsythe (Dick Tracy, The Rock, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo) sees Meadows' employment as a way to gain inside information for future burglaries, and tries to cajole, bribe, and blackmail Meadows into helping the gang. Meadows resists, as it was helping his brother that got him into jail, and loyalty that kept him from implicating the others. In the course of work he interviews Chun Hua (Bai Ling), an attractive young Chinese woman married to a much older businessman, and has a baby boy from an earlier liaison. Meadows enjoys her companionship and starts an innocent relationship with her, getting paid to teach her colloquial (New ... ()