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May 7, 2021, 6:00 am 13 Shares Screenwriter Emma Needell poses for a portrait at Crown Hill Open Space on April 26, 2021 in Denver, Colorado. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post) In the engaging family film “The Water Man,” Gunner Boone braves the woods searching for the seemingly apocryphal figure of the movie’s title when something zips past him in the darkness. Twice. Or does it? Filmgoers might be forgiven for being as startled and stumped as the movie’s protagonist. And the film deftly teases a youngster’s grasp of the real and a belief in the fantastical. Portrayed by Lonnie Chavis (one of the Randall Pierson portrayers on NBC’s “This Is Us”), Gunner and his family have recently moved to a small town in Oregon. His father has taken leave from his naval post because his wife (Gunner’s mother) is ill.