Treading Water (also titled The Boy Who Smells Like Fish) is a 2013 Mexican-Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Analeine Cal y Mayor and starring Douglas Smith and Zoë Kravitz. It is Cal y Mayor's feature directorial debut.
The film premiered at the Miami International Film Festival in March 2013.
The film has a rating of 40% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews.
Nick Schager of Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote, "Emitting the unpleasant stench of over-affectation, Treading Water slaps together its particular peculiarities with such randomness, itâÂÂs as if the film were conceived from blindly throwing disparate elements at the wall."
Sheila O'Malley of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars.
Mark Adams of Screen Daily gave the film a positive review, calling it "a gentle charmer punctuated with a series of nicely judged performance and an increasing sense of magical realism."