PG | 1h 32min | Drama, Fantasy | 2021
In the town of Pine Mills, Oregon, legend has it that a tall, shadowy figure emerges from the waters with fire on his chest and hope in his eyes. That’s how David Oyelowo’s fairy tale-like movie “The Water Man” begins.
Gunner Boone, 11, (Lonnie Chavis) is a highly intelligent graphic-novel nerd, drawing, sketching, imagining, and creating mysterious plots and subplots, around his own literary creation: the character Detective Knox. Gunner would rather hang out in a bookstore exploring possible clues and characterizations for his mystery books than fool around with a ball on a field….