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LADY IN THE
WATER - PREVIEW
 Lady
in the Water
Starring:
Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban,
Freddy Rodriguez, Sarita Choudhury, Jared Harris, Bill Irwin
Director:
M. Night Shyamalan
Rated:
Unrated
U.S. Opening Date:
July, 21 2006
Does M. Night Shyamalan only have one genuinely good
movie in him to make? That is the question one has to ask of this
talented, but confounding director who made a huge splash with Sixth
Sense back in the late 1990s, but went on to make several movies that
had some moments of great filmic style, but often suffered from
screenplays that were ultimately either ridiculous (Signs)
or predictable (The Village).
However, whatever his faults, Shyamalan’s films are at
least more original and interesting than let’s say
Doom or BloodRayne; a back-handed
compliment sure, but one should be grateful for small mercies.
And speaking of Splash: the mermaid/horror
concept behind his upcoming Lady in the Water sounds intriguing to
say the least. Hopefully it won’t be marred by Shyamalan’s obsession with
“surprise” endings and feature more of the brooding and effective moments
of tension he managed to work into The Village
and Signs.
Plot
A modest building manager named Cleveland Heep
rescues a mysterious young woman from danger and discovers she is actually
a narf, a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the
treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow
tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime
story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman, he
works together with the tenants to protect his new fragile friend from the
deadly creatures that reside in this fable and are determined to prevent
he reviewr from returning home.
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Some sources:
Amazon.com
Trailers
Read our
review.
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