Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HAPPENING, THE (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0024543532897
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbedSpanishDubbed
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: FOXD2253289D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
A paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 10/07/2008 Starring: Mark Wahlberg John Leguizamo Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R

Amazon.com:
You'd expect the end of the world to be no day in the park, but in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, a day in the park is where the end begins. One otherwise peaceful summer morning, New Yorkers strolling in Central Park come to a halt in unison, then begin killing themselves by any means at hand. At a high-rise construction site a few blocks over, it's raining bodies as workers step off girders into space. And all the while, the city is so quiet you can hear the gentle breeze in the trees. That breeze carries a neurotoxin, and what or who put it there (terrorists?) is a question raised periodically as the film unfolds. But the question that really matters is how and whether anybody in the Middle Atlantic states is going to stay alive. The Happening is Shyamalan's best film since The Sixth Sense, partly because he avoids the kind of egregious misjudgment that derailed The Village and Lady in the Water, but mostly because the whole thing has been structured and imagined to keep faith with the point of view of regular, unheroic folks confronted with a mammoth crisis. Focal characters are a Philadelphia high-school science teacher (Mark Wahlberg, excellent), his wife (Zooey Deschanel) and math-teacher colleague (John Leguizamo), and the latter's little girl (Ashlyn Sanchez). Instinct says get out of the cities and move west; most of the film takes place in the delicately picturesque Pennsylvania countryside, with menace hovering somewhere in the haze. There are no special effects (apart from a wind machine and some breakaway glass), but the movie manages to be deeply unsettling in the matter-of-factness of its storytelling. Especially effective is its feel for what we might call the surrealism of banality. One warning sign that someone has been infected by the neurotoxin is irrational or erratic speech and behavior, yet Shyamalan has a genius for dialogue that sounds normal and everyday as it's spoken, yet flies apart grenade-like a second later as its logic (or illogic) sinks in. Then there's Deschanel's eye-rolling dodginess about the messages some guy has been leaving on her cellphone. Or the fellow (Frank Collis) who addresses his greenhouse plants as though they were his children--has a stray toxic zephyr wafted his way, or is this just his idea of normal? --Richard T. Jameson




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Rating: - Better Than Expected
I've been a fan of M. Night Shyamalan's movies since the Sixth Sense. Unbreakable is a really overlooked gem, and Signs was a cool take on the alien invasion cliche. There is a slower, more deliberate pace to his movies compared to most Hollywood thrillers, somewhat reminiscent of Hitchcock. However, his past few movies have taken a slide in quality. I found the Village to be somewhat disappointing,with a strong beginning but a weak finish, though it was still watchable and reasonably entertaining. ... Read More

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Rating: - Shyamalan's worse is still quite decent
I know most people hated this movie and I agree it had many problems. However, I actually liked the strange quirky characters and the film did create quite a bit of tension! It was mostly enjoyable. (I confess, I have loved all of his other films, so I may have a bias!)

The issues, as I see them, are:

1.) Deschanel and Wahlberg's story was not quite rich enough to satisfy on its own. This could have remedied by adding to Leguizamo's story -- his character was in a perfect ... Read More

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Rating: - An awful movie....
Al Gore would probably like this movie, but Michelle Polk rates it at zero! A gory movie which made little sense. Oh, I get the whole propaganda theme but the movie itself was just stupid. Suicide after suicide is committed because the plants are angry with humans. It might make a good sci-fi book but to watch those scenes over and over was just too rough!

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Rating: - Graceful Characters, Interesting Story
I'm noticing an interesting trend in Mr. Shyamalan's movies. While the "threat" or "main issue" of the movie is often dramatic and horrifying, the dialogue and relationships of the characters are usually delicate and graceful. There's a beautiful subtly to his movies that tug at your heart ever so gently. All of his main characters have wounded souls that, somehow through the difficulty they confront in the course of the story, figure out their greatest strengths. Not every ending is a perfect one ... Read More

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Rating: - i love this movie
becaause if they keep making movies like this we are going to do ourselves in
the future of movies is indeed corporate dispensibility

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