Lady in the Water
(2006) Fantasy/ Thriller 6.5/10
This is a very magical tale, written
and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan created this story as a
tale to tell to his daughters and changed it every so often. The
story is now published and in the Young Readers section on GoodReads
and hard copies are available. I always enjoyed this film because it
brought a 'community', residents in a housing complex, together and
helped to get the narf, Story, back home. Narf is the term for a sea
nymph and a scrunt is a wolf-like creature made out of grass and
greenery with red eyes (picture above). The scrunt is trying to keep Story from
getting home and there is a certain time window when the Eagle will
come to pick Story up and return her safely. The cast is a bunch of B
and C listers with Paul Giamatti being Mr. Cleveland Heep and Bryce
Dallas Howard as Story and M. Night Shyamalan casts himself in the
movie also. This movie is not comparable to other hits that Shyamalan
has such as Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Split but it's very magical
which gives me a special feeling about it. It's not the best movie
I've ever seen but it's also not the worst. I feel that a 6.5 is a
fair rating.
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