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Lady in the Water
Widescreen Edition
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Suspense

PG-13 2006 1hr 50min

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep (Giamatti) rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make ... more »

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Actors: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Creators: M. Night Shyamalan, Christopher Doyle, Barbara Tulliver, John Rusk, Jose L. Rodriguez, Sam Mercer
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Suspense
Sub-Genres: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Suspense
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen - Closed-captioned,Dubbed,Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 12/19/2006
Original Release Date: 07/21/2006
Theatrical Release Date: 07/21/2006
Release Year: 2006
Run Time: 1hr 50min
Screens: Color,Widescreen
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 6
Members Wishing: 0
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French

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Member Movie Reviews

K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 11/29/2022...

What a Bomb!

Chad B. (abrnt1) from CABERY, IL
Reviewed on 1/27/2012...

Train wreck. This film is awful beyond belief. A boring waste of time that really has no point. I've had more entertainment watching paint dry.

1 of 5 member(s) found this review helpful.

C&R W. (unhappybirthday)
Reviewed on 1/2/2012...

"Signs" is good. "The Village" is great. "Lady In the Water"? NO. Lame and annoying. But don't take my word for it. It's such a strange movie that opinions are likely to vary depending upon each person's point of view. However, I recommend renting rather than blowing a perfectly good credit.

2 of 3 member(s) found this review helpful.

Dawn W. from COSHOCTON, OH
Reviewed on 12/5/2008...

We rented this movie from the library and am very thankful it was available for free rental because I would have been upset with myself if I had purchased it or even wasted credits having it delivered via swap.

It is worth watching .. once with a bit of mystery to keep you until the end wondering who will play all the parts lad out by the tale told (piece by piece) throughout the whole movie.

Once this movie reveals it's secrets - it is dry and doesn't have the flow or build up of characters that it could have had to make the story a good one.

4 of 7 member(s) found this review helpful.

Barbara S. (gallagirl) from GLOVERSVILLE, NY
Reviewed on 7/12/2008...

Not what i thought it would be, A really wonderful fairytale for teens and adults.

3 of 4 member(s) found this review helpful.

Jeff V. (burielofmel) from HARRIMAN, TN
Reviewed on 3/12/2008...

I couldn't believe how bad this thing was. How did this movie ever get made? I loved Sixth Sense, Signs, and count Unbreakable as one of my favorite films. The Village wasn't all that great but it was watchable. This, wow, I just don't know how Night got a film company to give him money to make this.

CRAP. PURE CRAP.

6 of 13 member(s) found this review helpful.

Jason C. (JJC) from NEWARK, NJ
Reviewed on 12/14/2007...

With "The Sixth Sense", "Unbreakable" and "Signs", I thought M. Night Shyamalan couldn't do any wrong; a gift to the genre. I mean even with "The Village", you could see a creative mind was at work. The problem with "The Village" though, was that it was marketed as a horror film and it clearly was nothing of the sort.

"Lady in the Water" is marketed as a bedtime story, which is precisely what the film is; but I think the building of the story was just too silly.

"Lady in the Water" follows the story of Cleveland Heep (a terrific Paul Giamatti), a meek, busy-body who is the super of an apartment complex in Philadelphia. Occupying the spaces there are quite an ensemble cast of characters including a arrogant writer/film critic (Bob Balaban), a young bodybuilder only building up one side of his body (Freddy Rodriguez), an anti-social fuddy-duddy (Bill Irwin), a struggling writer and his giddy sister (M. Night himself & Sarita Choundry), a cross-word puzzle extroadinaire (Geoffrey Wright) and a bunch of smoking socialites (led by Jared Harris).

But everyone's life is about to change when Cleveland encounters a young woman who mysteriously appears in the complex swimming pool. She goes by the name of Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) who comes from "The Blue World." She is trying to reach a sanctuary, however she will need the help of certain tenants which she can't individually label. So the mystery ensues, but M. Night does a silly job of unraveling the mystery, as we are forced to deal with Heep getting info from an oriental woman who is relaying info from her mother who miraculously knows the story of The Blue World. Most of the clues are solved by monotonous and tedious interpretation.

"Lady in the Water" is a very interesting film, but even for a fantasy, the unwrapping of the clues is so silly, it borders on a bad film. But I understand what M. Night was trying to do, but there are so many other elements he could've used. All in all, it's still a cool story...it's just hard to swallow, the way it was executed.

3 of 4 member(s) found this review helpful.