Bob Balaban, Bryce Dallas Howard, Freddy Rodriguez
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...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 19, 2006
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Stats: 25,270 reviews
Flixster Reviews (25,270)
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September 14, 2009I thought this was a sweet little movie, I'm not so sure why it got so panned by the critics? M. Night does have a bit of an ego though, which is becoming a problem, at least his signature unpredictable (predictable) ending was different!
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April 8, 2009A solitary motel caretaker finds a young woman in the swimming pool and discovers that she is a water nymph who he must help to escape the clutches of an evil creature lurking in the backyard. MNS finally ditches his trademark "twist" formula for which I am thankful because that ...( read more)
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April 5, 2009Wow this was boring, didnt explain itself very well, didnt make much sense and was acted badly. The effects where nice for the little sections of fantasy but basically it was boring and is a complete waste for a interesting story, could of been much more.
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November 25, 2008Awkwardly amusing, but infinitely self-indulgent nonsense by Mr. M Night Shyamalan, the 'master' of plot twists, that hateful and failed aspirant to genius who always comes up with cheap, brain-dead ideas, wraps and sells them with the absurd conviction that he is creating the ul...( read more)
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November 15, 2008"Time is running out for a happy ending."
M. Night Shyamalan writes and directs this self-proclaimed, grown-up "bedtime story" about an apartment building superintendent named Cleveland (Paul Giamatti) who discovers a magical sea-nymph named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) ...( read more) -
November 20, 2009Sorry, but M. Night messed this one up. There wasn't even a twist at the end.
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November 14, 2009Io non lo so perché questo film sia così odiato da (quasi) tutti, personalmente l'ho trovato davvero bello, delicato, con una bella storia, una favola.
Paul Giamatti come al solito è stato bravissimo e Bryce Dallas Howard è pura poesia.
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November 11, 2009Oh crap! This may be one of the worst movies I?ve ever seen, and definitely the worst this year. I know it didn?t come out this year but I got it because I thought my wife would be interested. She?s been a fan of this guy since The Sixth Sense. I?ve taken the Spike Lee spiel that...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
September 13, 2006
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com
July 26, 2006
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
A case study of an increasingly defensive filmmaker falling off the auteurist deep end. full review
July 21, 2006
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
In the end, Shyamalan's stumbling Lady never gives us a reason to believe. full review
July 21, 2006
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Crazy as this might sound, it turns out that self-indulgent ramblings designed to put your children to sleep are pretty much the opposite of art. full review
July 21, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
With his work beginning to seem as insular as the communities he's imagining, Shyamalan really needs to try directing someone else's screenplay. full review
July 21, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The movie is a muddle, burdened with too many characters and a sorry lack of thrills, flair and coherence. Yet Shyamalan's talent is real. full review
July 21, 2006
Kurt Loder, MTV
The story is exceedingly dull; to become involved in it would require not just a suspension of disbelief, but a suspension of mental faculties altogether. [A] bewildering misstep for a director of Shy... full review
July 20, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Lady in the Water challenges us to believe in the power of myth. But the big challenge here is surviving the tedium of Shyamalan's meandering inventiveness. What's supposed to be fanciful storytelling... full review
July 20, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Shyamalan is too gifted a filmmaker to waste his time, and ours, on such twaddle. The best thing that could be done with Lady in the Water is to deep-six it and hope that his next project doesn't occu... full review
July 17, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Like Splash reworked by a grandiose Sunday-school teacher. full review
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November 1, 2008dull n boring....saw it for half an hour...n felt like sleeping...could not gather courage to view completely....
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July 17, 2007Great movie!!! The only thing that annoyed me is that it was so quiet and it was hard to hear, but other than that I loved it! It makes you think! During the whole movie you are trying to figure who has what purpose and it is crazy! I love all of M. Night's movies!!
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July 13, 2007What a polarity in reviews on this one amongst my friends!I don't know what that means,but it seems to me that either truly great films or truly awful ones invite this sort of extreme divisiveness.I'll leave it at that...
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June 25, 2007I loved this movie just for the simple fact that it's different. It's a fairy tale that doesn't need to have fancy dresses and tiaras or a wicked witch.
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June 12, 2007I thought it was beautiful the music gets me everytime,James Newtown Howard made the music sound amazing I even downloaded the Prologue!! I loved it and cant say much more!!
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June 8, 2007i liked the ending
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June 8, 2007
im watching this movie as im writting this
it seems really slow
i will say more when i watched it all
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