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Lady in the Water

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Lady in the Water (2006)

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Reviews Counted:207

Fresh:50

Rotten:157

Average Rating:4.2/10

Consensus: A far-fetched story with little suspense and unconvincing scenarios, Lady In The Water feels contrived, pretentious, and rather silly.

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Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for some frightening sequences

Runtime: 1 hr. 50 min.

Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Drama

Theatrical Release: Jul 21, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $42.2M

Synopsis: 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... 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 her from returning home. [More]

Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban

Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury, Cindy Cheung, M. Night Shyamalan, Freddy Rodriguez, Bill Irwin, Mary Beth Hurt, Noah Gray-Cabey, Joseph D. Reitman, Jared Harris, Grant Monohon, John Boyd, Ethan Cohn, June Kyoko Lu, Tovah Feldshuh, Tom Mardirosian, Maricruz Hernandez, Carla Jimenez, Natasha Perez, Monique Curnen, Marilyn Torres, George Bass, Joel Garland, James "Jimbo" Breen, Nell Johnson, Walter Lafty, Mark Melchiorre Jr., Kevin Frank, Brian Weaver, Nick Perri, Jeremy Howard, Brian Steele, Kurt Carley, Doug Jones

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Producer: Samuel Mercer, M. Night Shyamalan
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

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REVIEWS FOR LADY IN THE WATER

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Jul 7, 2010
Neil Miller
Neil Miller
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Full Review Source: Movies.com | comment Comment
Jul 7, 2010
Dave White
Dave White
Movies.com
N/R

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Full Review Source: Baltimore City Paper | comment Comment
Jan 22, 2010
Gary Dowell
Gary Dowell
Baltimore City Paper

Peevishly defensive, intransigently personal and serenely indifferent to critical (and audience) reaction

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
Aug 30, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion
N/R

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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
Apr 29, 2009
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
N/R

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Apr 23, 2009
Gary Susman
Gary Susman
Boston Phoenix

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Aug 7, 2008
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

... to put it bluntly, badly paced and completely trivial, not to mention utterly juvenile.

Full Review Source: ESplatter | comment 4 Comments
Jul 4, 2008
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter

This could have made a decent movie but the mythology comes so thick and fast that it mixes to a slurry as you watch.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
Jun 13, 2008
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

What is most annoying about "Lady" is that no one ever considers the possibility that nothing magical is actually occurring.The film starts out silly and just gets sillier.

Full Review Source: Beyond Hollywood | comment 3 Comments
Apr 20, 2008
Brian Holcomb
Brian Holcomb
Beyond Hollywood

While I love where Night's head and heart are at, I think he tried to communicate them in a way that was clumsy, cumbersome, lacking in suspense and menace, and frankly, unexciting.

Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com | comment Comment
Feb 28, 2008
Brandon Fibbs
Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com
N/R

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Jan 15, 2008
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

Ignore the critics on this movie. Yeah, I am one. Which means I'm telling you to ignore me, too.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
Jul 23, 2007
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

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Jul 14, 2007
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

The film is a mess, a ramshackle affair. Its silliness cannot sustain itself.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
Apr 25, 2007
Jamie Gillies
Jamie Gillies
Apollo Guide

It's a fairy tale that never flies the way it should.

Full Review Source: UGO | comment Comment
Mar 24, 2007
Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
UGO

We get it. We just don't want it. Because this Lady is the Showgirls of fantasy films.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
Feb 7, 2007
Frank Lovece
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International

High on talk-heavy exposition and low on actual scares and thrills . . .

Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page | comment Comment
Dec 28, 2006
James O'Ehley
James O'Ehley
Sci-Fi Movie Page

A return to storytelling in the first order, "Lady in the Water" is highly recommended.

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Dec 13, 2006
Michael A. Smith
Michael A. Smith
Nolan's Pop Culture Review

Once the filmmaker spells everything out for us in the first fifteen or twenty minutes, the rest of the plot simply unfolds in a jumbled series of incomprehensible events.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
Dec 8, 2006
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
 
 
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