Taglines: In a small town, on a peaceful lake, a mythical creature is about to surface.
Magic in the Water movie storyline. Ashley Black is depressed because her father Jack spends all his time focusing on his job instead of her and her older brother Joshua. She constantly records his radio show and listens to it.
One day, her father takes them to a remote Canadian lake that was popular with tourists due to a myth about an aquatic monster named Orky. They rented a cabin next to an elderly First Nations man who uses a wheelchair. Jack meets a local psychiatrist, Dr. Wanda Bell, who is trying to aid some local men who claim that they have been possessed by Orky. When Ashley runs away, Jack also has the same experience while looking for her. As a result, he becomes more devoted to his children.
Ashley and Joshua find out that the reason that Orky is possessing people is to try and tell them that he is dying because a businessman is dumping toxic waste into the lake. Ashley and Joshua help the old man in the cabin next to theirs to find a totem pole in the woods.
Magic in the Water is a 1995 American family film directed by Rick Stevenson and starring Mark Harmon, Joshua Jackson and Sarah Wayne. It is about a fictional lake monster in British Columbia. The film was distributed by TriStar Pictures and produced by Triumph Films.
Magic in the Water (1995)
Directed by: Rick Stevenson
Starring: Mark Harmon, Harley Jane Kozak, Joshua Jackson, Sarah Wayne, Adrien Dorval, Tom Cavanagh, Anthony Towe, Brian T. Finney, David Rasche, Lesley Ewen
Screenplay by: Rick Stevenson, Icel Dobell Massey
Production Design by: Clyde Klotz
Cinematography by: Thomas Burstyn
Film Editing by: Allan Lee
Costume Design by: Monique Prudhomme
Set Decoration by: Michael O’Connor
Art Direction by: Eric Norlin
Music by: David Schwartz
MPAA Rating: PG for language and moments of peril.
Distributed by: TriStar Pictures
Release Date: August 30, 1995
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