"Magic in the Water" is a movie about a girl named Ashley (played by Sarah Wayne) and her brother Joshua (played by Joshua Jackson) who are taken by their workaholic dad named Jack Black (played by Mark Harmon) to a lake in British Columbia where a fabled lake monster, much like the Loch Ness Monster, is beleived to exist. The two kids discover that this monster (named Orky) is in fact real, and Ashley befriends it, and attempts to get closer to her dad, and stop polluters from throwing toxic waste into Orky's lake.

The Oreo Scene

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There's a hokey scene in the movie where Ashley is starting to realize that there might in fact be a friendly lake monster dwelling in the depths of this lake, so decides to leave out some Oreo Cookies on the edge of a dock for Orky to eat. The next morning, she wakes up to find the Oreas still there, but the centers licked out by a mysterious creature...

Reaction

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Magic in the Water in general didn't get very good reviews, some critics calling it a bad attempt to copy Free Willy and the Air Bud films. Reviews can be found here.