David Oyelowo’s debut as a director, “The Water Man,” is a very nice movie that’s a lot like a bunch of other very nice movies.
Gunner’s mom (Rosario Dawson) is dying of cancer, and the awkward young bookworm is determined to save her. So he borrows everything written on leukemia from the library and asks her doctor to prescribe different meds.
Nothing works, but then Gunner (Lonnie Chavis) hears the legend of the Water Man, a local myth about a guy who miraculously woke up after drowning only to become immortal.
He is said to live in the forest on the edge of town, constantly searching the river for his dead wife.Gunner hatches a scheme to find the Water Man and learn the secret to everlasting life, so his mother can be cured.
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