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The Water Man, David Oyelowo's feature film directorial debut, is not, it turns out, the British-born actor's long-gestating passion project sequel to
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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn For family audiences, “The Water Man” is an exhilarating gift. • 5 min read Karen Ballard/RLJE Films Lonnie Chavis, left, as Gunner Boone, and Rosario Dawson, as Mary Boone, in a scene from "The Water Man." A 12-year-old boy heads into the Oregon woods in search of a mythic creature he thinks has the healing power to save his dying mother. That’s the premise behind “The Water Man,” a deeply felt family adventure, touched by the supernatural. Executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, the film marks a hear...
CST_ RLJE Films presents a film directed by David Oyelowo and written by Emma Needell. Rated PG (for thematic content, scary images, peril and some language). Running time: 92 minutes. Opens Thursday at local theaters. This is a movie about a monster in the woods that’s really about much scarier things for children: a mother in one family who is seriously ill; a father in another family who is physically abusive; a wildfire raging in the mountains. All terrific adventure stories like this need a winning protagonist — and Lonnie Chavis (“This is Us”) is eminently likable as 11-...
Rolling Stone ‘The Water Man’ Review: Where the Mild Things Are David Oyelowo’s directorial debut — about a boy searching for a local urban legend — presents a kinder, gentler version of a kids’ adventure story By Karen Ballard/RJE Films A nice, gentle family film for nice, gentle families, David Oyelowo’s The Water Man is a light, slight adventure in which the observations about children’s creativity, grief and carpe-ing the diem are mild, and the magic-realist perils faced by our appealing pre-teen hero even milder. Its sincerity and solidity are never in...