’Tis the season for heartwarming family movies featuring familiar actors playing Mom or Dad while the kids discover magic in one form or another. For our lake-monster chapter, it’s Mark Harmon (often shirtless—he was a sex symbol back in 1995) and an Ogopogo-adjacent Canadian lake monster starring in Magic in the Water. There’s spectacular glacial-lake scenery. And plenty of drama, both in the family and in the lake.
Mark Harmon is very divorced workaholic radio-host dad Jack Black (really) dragging his two kids (teen Josh and tween Ashley) to Canada on vacation. Jack is there to write a book. The kids are there because it’s Dad’s turn to have the kids.
Dad works. Kids are bored. Kids find trouble to get into. Bad trouble, good trouble. Supernatural trouble.
They’ve rented a very odd structure in the town of Glenorky, home of Orky the tourist attraction. There’s a mysterious old Native American man who …