Lady in the Water (Full Screen) PG-13
Time is running out for a happy ending.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 19, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bryce Dallas Howard & Paul Giamatti | |
Performer: | Bob Balaban, Jeffrey Wright, Sarita Choudhury, Freddy Rodriguez, Bill Irwin, Jared Harris, Mary Beth Hurt & M. Night Shyamalan | |
Directed by | M. Night Shyamalan | |
Edited by | Barbara Tulliver | |
Screenwriting by | M. Night Shyamalan | |
Composition by | James Newton Howard | |
Director of Photography: | Christopher Doyle |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]hanks to superb performances, it's pretty engrossing. Howard draws you right in, there's no way not to empathize with Giamatti...
Ultimate DVD
Rating: 2/5 --
This could have made a decent movie but the mythology comes so thick and fast that it mixes to a slurry as you watch.
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Eye for Film
Rating: 2/5 --
Once again Shyamalan is a maddening storyteller, by turns inspired and insipid, and he still manages to conjure some odd, unnerving moments.
Empire Magazine Australasia
Rating: 2/5 --
There are some laughs to be had, albeit not always in the right places. A resounding plop.
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BBC.com
Rating: 1.5/4 --
[Perhaps it's] improvised and protracted, nonsensically and unnecessarily, just for the sake of stringing us along. And, maybe, putting us to sleep.
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RogerEbert.com
While the film's performances are intriguing and the direction tight, Shyamalan's fairytale ends up being more interesting than the actual film.
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Cinema Crazed
3 stars out of 5 -- Zooming in, Giamatti and Howard are technically perfect...
Total Film
Product Description:
M. Night Shyamalan (THE SIXTH SENSE, THE VILLAGE) continues his mission to revive the ancient art of storytelling--which he has diagnosed as a dying art--melding aspects of the fantastic with the mundane, and bringing to life a mythology of his own concoction. Paul Giamatti (SIDEWAYS) is Cleveland Heep, the depressed caretaker of an apartment complex in suburban Philadelphia called the Cove--a location from which the film virtually never strays. He tends the homes of a host of loveable eccentrics, including Jeffrey Wright (SYRIANA) as a single dad, Sarita Choudhury (SHE HATE ME) and the director himself as brother-and-sister roommates, Bob Balaban as a cynical film critic, and Cindy Cheung as a college girl Cleveland befriends. When Cleveland is pulled from the pool by a mysterious young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard, THE VILLAGE) after a nasty bump on the head, he quickly discovers her true identity as a narf, one of an ancient race of water beings whose attempts at communication with humans have long ago ceased. As Cleveland attempts to return her to her world, uncovering the intricacies of the story from which she emerged and protecting her from the beasts that seek to thwart her, she helps him and many of the other residents find their true purpose in life, reaffirming the meaning it holds for them. Though the tale borders on overpopulation with many thinly drawn characters, and Shyamalan's own role is overtly reflective of the ego he is so often accused of, the tale manages to stimulate the imagination nonetheless. It achieves this by invoking universally affecting elements of myth and magic, and mesmerizing viewers with stunning photography by Wong Kar-Wai (CHUNGKING EXPRESS) regular Christopher Doyle.
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