LADY IN THE WATER

Year: 2006
USA: Warner Bros Pictures
UK: Warner Bros International UK
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Freddy Rodriguez, Sarita Choudhury, Jared Harris, Bill Irwin, Cindy Cheung, M Night Shyamalan, Mary Beth Hurt, Noah Gray-Cabey, Joseph D Reitman, Grant Monohon, John Boyd, Ethan Cohn, June Kyoto Lu, Tovah Feldshuh, Tom Mardirosian, Maricruz Hernandez, Carla Jimenez, Natasha Perez, Monique Curnen, Marilyn Torres, George Bass, Patrick Armstrong, Joel Marsh Garland, James "Jimbo" Breen, Nell Johnson, Kurt Carley, Jeremy Howard, Doug Jones, Brian Steele, Nancy de Zutter
Director: M Night Shyamalan
Country: USA
USA: 108 mins
UK: 109 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some frightening sequences
UK Certificate: PG contains mild threat and scary moments
USA Release Date: 21 July 2006
UK Release Date: 11 August 2006

Synopsis

LADY IN THE WATER is a story originally conceived by writer/director/producer M Night Shyamalan (THE VILLAGE, SIGNS) for his children.

A modest building manager at the Cove apartment complex, Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) rescues a mysterious young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) 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. In addition Cleveland is smitten and falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman.

Cleveland works together with the tenants to protect his new fragile friend from the deadly creatures that reside in this fable and are determined to prevent her from returning home.