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Lady in the Water
When Cleveland Heep rescues an enigmatic young woman from danger, little does he know that she is a character from a bedtime story, who is trying to return to her world. Now, he must work with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
25 May 1968, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
22 October 1981, New York City, New York, USA
26 September 1962, Greenville, Pennsylvania, USA
27 January 1970, California, USA
16 August 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 April 1979, New York City, New York, USA
16 November 1995, Newry, Maine, USA
24 August 1961, London, England, UK
July 21, 2006
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.July 21, 2006
The story is so convoluted and ultimately preposterous that you're almost embarrassed by the earnestness of the actors trying to carry it off.April 20, 2008
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.July 04, 2008
... to put it bluntly, badly paced and completely trivial, not to mention utterly juvenile.April 29, 2009
While the film's performances are intriguing and the direction tight, Shyamalan's fairytale ends up being more interesting than the actual film.August 10, 2006
What was [Shyamalan] thinking? This isn't just duff, it's career-threatening catastrophic.June 13, 2008
This could have made a decent movie but the mythology comes so thick and fast that it mixes to a slurry as you watch.July 21, 2006
despite the childlike nature of the story, Lady in the Water will prove too confusing for most kids, which is a shame, since they're also the ones most like to greet that giant-eagle business with something other than a derisive laugh.July 21, 2006
In the end, Shyamalan's stumbling Lady never gives us a reason to believe.September 13, 2006
[Perhaps it's] improvised and protracted, nonsensically and unnecessarily, just for the sake of stringing us along. And, maybe, putting us to sleep.November 07, 2012
Once again Shyamalan is a maddening storyteller, by turns inspired and insipid, and he still manages to conjure some odd, unnerving moments.