When this film was first advertised I really looked foward to it as M Night Shylaman has had some really good movies Signs being one of my favorites and this looked to be going back on track after the disappointment with The Village.
The film centres around the caretaker Cleveland Heep ... Read review
Lullaby. And good fright. The creator of The Sixth Sense and Signs wants to tell you a ... more
bedtime story.A story M. Night Shyamalan told his children is the springboard for this spellbinding plunge into the supernatural. Paul Giamatti plays an apartment ma...
Lullaby. And good fright. The creator of The Sixth Sense and Signs wants to tell you a ... more
bedtime story. A story M. Night Shyamalan told his children is the springboard for this spellbinding plunge into the supernatural. Paul Giamatti plays an apartment manager who finds an otherworld water nymph named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) in the pool, then sets out to help her return to her home, The Blue World. It's about to get very dangerous, she warns. And very fascinating. Because fierce Blue World monsters prowl nearby, determined to destroy Story - and anyone who aids her, including the apartment dwellers who come to realize they are players in her tale. Their lives have undiscovered purposes. And how they defy the monsters to fulfill those destinies forms the amazing heart of discovery in Lady in the Water.
From writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (The Village, Signs, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense) ... more
comes Lady in the Water.Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) has been quietly trying to disappear among the burned-out light bulbs and broken appliances of the Cove apartment complex. But one night, Cleveland finds someone else hiding in the mundane routine of the modest building - a mysterious water nymph named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard), who has been living in the passageways beneath the building's swimming pool. Story is being stalked by vicious creatures from her world that are determined to prevent her from making the journey from our world back to hers. Story's unique powers reveal the fates of Cleveland's fellow tenants, whose destinies are tied directly to her own, and they must work together to decipher a series of codes that will unlock the pathway back to her world. They must succeed in their quest to save her world...and ours.
M. Night Shyamalan writes and directs this self-proclaimed,grown-up "bedtime story" about ... more
an apartment building superintendentnamed Cleveland (Paul Giamatti) who discovers a magical sea-nymphnamed Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) who's been transported to thisworld and is living in the building's own swimming pool. As thisbizarre revelation sinks in, Cleveland becomes enraptured by herother-worldly charm. As he shelters her in his apartment, otherinhabitants of the building begin falling into place asrepresentations of characters from an Eastern myth in which thesemermaids, or "narfs," co-exist unhappily with more beastly andviolent characters. In human reality, the forces of darkness thatthreaten the heroes of a fairy tale prove to be much moreterrifying, and the victory of good over evil is by no meansguaranteed. Jeffery Wright, Jared Harris and Mary Beth Hurtco-star, as well as Shyamalan himself, playing the visionary writerVick. Special Features: Lady in the Water: A Bedtime Story Reflections of Lady in the Water6-PartDocumentary Additional Scenes Auditions Gag Reel Theatrical Trailer
Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Advantages: A different story to the norm Disadvantages: Starts to drag about midway through the movie
When this film was first advertised I really looked foward to it as M Night Shylaman has had some really good movies Signs being one of my favorites and this looked to be going back on track after the disappointment with The Village.
The film centres around the caretaker Cleveland Heep played by Paul Giamatti of an ordinary apartment block who just goes about his daily business until one day he finds a girl called Story in the water ... ...the world but has to return to her world once her mission is accomplished and this is being hampered by otherwordly wolves that have been sent to destroy her.
A group of the residents,rallied together by Cleveland, then have to work out how to get Story back to her own world and in the process they realise that they aren't all just living in the same apartment block by chance but have special quailites that were meant for just this ... more
When this film was first advertised I really looked foward to it as M Night Shylaman has had some really good movies Signs being one of my favorites and this looked to be going back on track after the disappointment with The Village.
The film centres around the caretaker Cleveland Heep played by Paul Giamatti of an ordinary apartment block who just goes about his daily business until one day he finds a girl called Story in the water played by Bryce Dallas Howard. Story is here to save the world but has to return to her world once her mission is accomplished and this is being hampered by otherwordly wolves that have been sent to destroy her.
A group of the residents,rallied together by Cleveland, then have to work out how to get Story back to her own world and in the process they realise that they aren't all just living in the same apartment block by chance but have special quailites that were meant for just this time.
Although the film starts out really well setting the scene and the mysterious atmosphere I found that it then began to sag about midway through the film and the story began to drag a little bit.
However the ending is quite good once you get through the slower middle part of the film.
I wouldn't say this film was a total wash out but it definatley is not up to Shylaman's earlier standards and I did find it a bit disappointing. However I hope he doesn't give up as he is definately one of the better talents out there.
Mr. Shyamalan has a nice way with actors, a fine eye and an actual vision of the world (New York Times, 23/01/2007)
One of Shyamalan's admirable traits is that he never just homages earlier work, but always thoroughly overhauls his sources. There are traces in LADY IN THE WATER of TWILIGHT ZONE writer Rod Serling's tales... (Sight and Sound, 23/01/2007)
Zooming in, Giamatti and Howard are technically perfect... (Total Film, 23/01/2007)
[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, 23/01/2007)
DVD Description
Kindly caretaker Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti, SIDEWAYS) discovers an elfin creature named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard, THE VILLAGE) living in the swimming pool of the apartment complex where he works. It soon becomes apparent to Cleveland that Story is not of this world, and that her mission to deliver a message to mankind is fraught with danger. The stuttering caretaker tries valiantly to protect her so that she may have safe passage back to the Blue World from whence she came. Suspension of disbelief is mandatory in this beautifully realised modern day fable, directed by master of suspense M. Night Shyamalan, who puts his own unique spin on the conventions of the traditional fairy tale.
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