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'Lady in the Water': A convoluted catastrophe
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

"Lady in the Water" isn't just another disappointment. It's a jaw-dropping catastrophe -- a picture so wrong-headedly intoxicated with itself you view it through an embarrassed haze. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
A building manager rescues a mysterious young woman and discovers she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. As he falls in love with her, he and the tenants work together to protect her from deadly creatures that are determined to prevent her from returning home.

FILM FACTS ...

Warner Bros. Pictures

'Lady in the Water'

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Freddy Rodriguez, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban
Run time: 1 hour, 50 minutes.
Release date: July 21, 2006
Rating: PG-13 for some frightening sequences.
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READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: F
" 'Lady in the Water' isn't just another disappointment. It's a jaw-dropping catastrophe -- a picture so wrong-headedly intoxicated with itself you view it through an embarrassed haze."

Read the full review

Austin American-Statesman: 2 of 5 stars
"And then the silky water nymph emerged from the bluish depths of ... a shabby, chlorinated swimming pool at a drab apartment complex in the suburbs. Right."