Lady in the Water (2006)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 207
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 157
A far-fetched story with little suspense and unconvincing scenarios, Lady In The Water feels contrived, pretentious, and rather silly.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 33
A far-fetched story with little suspense and unconvincing scenarios, Lady In The Water feels contrived, pretentious, and rather silly.
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Movie Info
M. Night Shyamalan writes and directs this self-proclaimed, grown-up "bedtime story" about an apartment building superintendent named Cleveland (Paul Giamatti) who discovers a magical sea-nymph named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) who's been transported to this world and is living in the building's own swimming pool. As this bizarre revelation sinks in, Cleveland becomes enraptured by her other-worldly charm. As he shelters her in his apartment, other inhabitants of the building begin falling into
PG-13, 1 hr. 50 min.
Jul 21, 2006 Wide
Dec 19, 2006
$42.2M
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
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Paul Giamatti
Cleveland Heep -
Bryce Dallas Howard
Story -
Jeffrey Wright
Mr. Dury -
Bob Balaban
Harry Farber -
Sarita Choudhury
Anna Ran -
Cindy Cheung
Young-Soon Choi -
M. Night Shyamalan
Vick Ran -
Freddy Rodriguez
Reggie -
Bill Irwin
Mr. Leeds -
Mary Beth Hurt
Mrs. Bell -
Noah Gray-Cabey
Joey Dury -
Joseph D. Reitman
Long Haired Smoker -
Jared Harris
Goatee Smoker -
Grant Monohon
Emaciated Smoker -
John Boyd
One-Eyebrow Smoker -
Ethan Cohn
Glasses Smoker -
June Kyoko Lu
Mrs. Choi -
Tovah Feldshuh
Mrs. Bubchik -
Tom Mardirosian
Mr. Bubchik -
Maricruz Hernandez
Perez de la Torre Siste... -
Carla Jimenez
Perez de la Torre Siste... -
Natasha Perez
Perez de la Torre Siste... -
Monique Curnen
Perez de la Torre Siste... -
Marilyn Torres
Perez de la Torre Siste... -
George Bass
Mr. Perez de la Torre -
Joel Garland
Pool Guy -
James "Jimbo" Breen
SPCA Guy -
Nell Johnson
Phone Message -
Walter Lafty
Silvertide Band Member -
Mark Melchiorre Jr.
Silvertide Band Member -
Kevin Frank
Silvertide Band Member -
Brian Weaver
Silvertide Band Member -
Nick Perri
Silvertide Band Member -
Jeremy Howard
Tartutic #1 -
Brian Steele
Tartutic #2 -
Kurt Carley
Tartutic #3 -
Doug Jones
Tartutic #4
All Critics (214) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (164) | DVD (29)
The story is so convoluted and ultimately preposterous that you're almost embarrassed by the earnestness of the actors trying to carry it off.
In the end, Shyamalan's stumbling Lady never gives us a reason to believe.
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.
An act of spectacular (if unwitting) self-immolation.
It's a busy made-up universe -- with rules, rituals, and a deity-tree that could give the Hindu hierarchy a run for its rupee. And it's extremely silly.
Lady is the height of folly, an endeavor as wrongheaded as The Postman, as foolish as any 'vanity' project of the past 20 years.
Peevishly defensive, intransigently personal and serenely indifferent to critical (and audience) reaction
More soggy than scary. Still, not for youngsters.
... to put it bluntly, badly paced and completely trivial, not to mention utterly juvenile.
This could have made a decent movie but the mythology comes so thick and fast that it mixes to a slurry as you watch.
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.
While I love where Night's head and heart are at, I think he tried to communicate them in a way that was clumsy, cumbersome, lacking in suspense and menace, and frankly, unexciting.
an earnest attempt to put the best possible gloss on a mediocre product.
Ignore the critics on this movie. Yeah, I am one. Which means I'm telling you to ignore me, too.
The disc's extras are less impressive than they first appear.
The film is a mess, a ramshackle affair. Its silliness cannot sustain itself.
It's a fairy tale that never flies the way it should.
Audience Reviews for Lady in the Water
One of the few M. Night Shyamalan films that I enjoy. Some of the acting was a bit ridiculous though.
August 5, 2010I think it's a good movie regardless of what most people say. It's sort've like an urban fairytale and is very successful at capturing a particular mood. It's not too scary, but it's definitely a lot more dark than it could've been. Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard are both really good in this and I loved their
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- La Jeune Fille De L'eau (FR)
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