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Directed by
M. Night Shyamalan Written by
M. Night Shyamalan Cast
Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury [more]
Release Date
• USA: Jul 21, 2006
Budget USD 75,000,000
BoxOffice: $42.2M
Official Website:
Lady in the Water Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some frightening sequences.
Running Time
1 hour, 50 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures, Blinding Edge Pictures, Legendary Pictures
Studio Warner Bros.
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Lady in the Water (2006)
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Lady in the Water Reviews |
There's probably a cult following that's going to love the film, and laud its spiritual overtones and none-too-subtle redemption motif. To me, however, it felt silly and artificial. When a filmmaker tells a story that transports the audience into an alternate reality, his first objective must be to get the viewers to believe in this world. Shyamalan doesn't do that. He assumes we'll accept it, and that mistake sinks the movie... [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
...is in the running for worst film of the year, which is a shame all by itself, but it was made by someone who has gone from genuinely talented (as that gem WIDE AWAKE demonstrated) to petulant, throwing his temper tantrums on the big screen for all to see. [read review] 
--Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
That’s not to say that Lady in the Water is a perfect film, it is not. There’s an opening animation that explains the mythology of the fairy tale world that was rather unnecessary, and Shyamalan is honestly not a good enough actor to be playing such a large role. He also sets himself up for criticism for the very role he chooses to play. The ending was far more satisfying than I feared, but at the same time, he uses a similar trick he did with Signs that I found more frustrating than artful. [read review] 
--Michael Sheridan (Tailslate.net)
By including this pointless, self-serving aside, and then paying so much attention to it, Shyamalan breaks the spell he was casting, and the film soon stumbles into repetition and lifelessness, eventually leading to a scarily unremarkable conclusion thatdoesn‘t earn any awe or fantasy splendor it was looking to invoke. [read review] D+
--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
Shyamalan might've been onto something if Lady in the Water were, say, a satire of Scientology; instead, it's a mission for a bedtime story, a badly told fairy tale, lacking grace and trying the trust of its audience. [read review] 3/10
--Jeffrey Chen (WindowToMovies.com)
Not only Shyamalan's scariest and funniest movie to date, but also his most accomplished, "Lady in the Water" ably tells an original and unconventional fairy tale in a way that makes you want to believe. [read review] 8/10
--Edward Douglas (ComingSoon.net)
A fairy-tale world exists inside the quotidian but most of the magic remain locked up inside writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's head. [read review]
--Kirk Honeycutt (Hollywod Reporter)
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