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Cleveland Heep, a modest building manager, rescues a mysterious young woman from danger and discovers she is actually a narf--a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman, he... See Full Description
| Genres: |
Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller |
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| Running Time: |
1 hr. 50 min. |
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| Release Date: |
July 21st, 2006 (wide), December 19th, 2006 (DVD) |
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| MPAA Rating: |
PG-13 for some frightening sequences. |
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| Distributors: |
Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures International
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$42,272,747 |
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| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
C
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
"It's a jaw-dropping catastrophe -- a picture so wrong-headedly intoxicated with itself you view it through an embarrassed haze." more...
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F |
Boston Globe, Wesley Morris
"There is a good chunk of Lady in the Water that is simply too well made and affectingly acted to dismiss as a mere exercise in arrogance." more...
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B- |
Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Emerson
"...who am I to knock the work of the man who, in his own film, casts himself as a writer whose ideas will inspire a future leader who will save the world..." more...
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C- |
Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips
"The tone of the picture feels as if Shyamalan weren't certain of how scary or whimsical or grave Lady in the Water should be." more...
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C- |
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