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Director:
Writer (WGA):
M. Night Shyamalan (written by)
Release Date:
13 June 2008 (USA)
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Tagline:
We've Sensed It. We've Seen The Signs. Now... It's Happening.
Plot:
A strange, horrible and unprecedented crisis begins in Central Park. A high school science teacher, his wife and a young girl do what they can to survive it. full summary | full synopsis
Plot Keywords:
Park
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Teacher
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Crisis
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Young Girl
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Disappearance
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Awards:
1 win
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4 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(214 articles)
Top 7 Movies That Make The End of the World Sound Hilarious
(From Scorecard Review. 13 November 2009, 2:18 PM, PST)
The Box
(From Scorecard Review. 7 November 2009, 7:34 PM, PST)
(From Scorecard Review. 13 November 2009, 2:18 PM, PST)
The Box
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Mark Wahlberg | ... | Elliot Moore | |
| Zooey Deschanel | ... | Alma Moore | |
| John Leguizamo | ... | Julian | |
| Ashlyn Sanchez | ... | Jess | |
| Betty Buckley | ... | Mrs. Jones | |
| Spencer Breslin | ... | Josh | |
| Robert Bailey Jr. | ... | Jared | |
| Frank Collison | ... | Nursery Owner | |
| Jeremy Strong | ... | Pvt. Auster - MP | |
| Alan Ruck | ... | Principal | |
| Victoria Clark | ... | Nursery Owner's Wife | |
| M. Night Shyamalan | ... | Joey (voice) | |
| Alison Folland | ... | Claire - Woman Reading on Bench with Hair Pin | |
| Kristen Connolly | ... | Woman Reading on Bench | |
| Cornell Womack | ... | Construction Foreman |
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MPAA:
Rated R for violent and disturbing images.
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Runtime:
91 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
South Korea:18 |
Finland:K-15 |
Ireland:15A |
Norway:15 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Singapore:PG |
Australia:MA |
New Zealand:R13 |
Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) |
Brazil:16 |
Italy:VM14 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Argentina:13 |
Spain:13 |
UK:15 |
USA:R (certificate #44343) |
Taiwan:R-12 |
Japan:PG-12 |
Germany:16 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Germany:16 (cut) (theatrical version) |
Sweden:15 |
Austria:14 |
Denmark:15 |
South Africa:16LV |
Canada:14A |
India:A (cinema release) |
New Zealand:R16 (DVD re-rating) |
Singapore:NC-16 (DVD rating) |
Spain:15 (DVD rating) |
Iceland:16
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This is the first film by M. Night Shyamalan in which he does not physically appear for a cameo; instead he is the voice of 'Joey', who calls Alma a couple times throughout the movie but we never actually see him or learn of his fate.
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Goofs:
Errors in geography: In Philadelphia, the characters board a train to Harrisburg, which is in south central Pennsylvania. It stops in Filbert soon after. Filbert is south of Pittsburgh, far west of Harrisburg.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Woman Reading on Bench with Hair Pin: I forgot where I am.
Woman Reading on Bench: You're at the place where the killers meet to decide what to do with the crippled girl.
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Woman Reading on Bench with Hair Pin: I forgot where I am.
Woman Reading on Bench: You're at the place where the killers meet to decide what to do with the crippled girl.
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Movie Connections:
References Fatal Attraction (1987)
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Soundtrack:
Smooth As Silk
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FAQ
Was this meant to be a B-movie?What's with the mood ring? They never explained it!
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When people start to kill themselves in the Central Park and then three blocks from the original location, the government announces a terrorist attack and evacuates New York. In Philadelphia, the high school teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel), his colleague and best friend Julian (John Leguizamo) and his daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) embark in a train to Harrisburg, but the service is disconnected in Filbert, still in Philadelphia. Sooner they see on the news that the government denies a terrorist attack, and that the affected area has spread out to Rittenhouse Square Park in Philadelphia and then to the Northeast of the United States of America, from Philadelphia to Boston. Julian decides to take a lift to Princeton to seek out his wife Yvette and leaves Jess under the care of Elliot and Alma. The trio moves to a lonely area in the Arundel County where they meet the lonely and weird Mrs. Jones (Betty Buckley), who lodges them. But sooner the nature reaches them
I had good expectation with "The Happening", but unfortunately it is another mediocre work of the overrated director M. Night Shyamalan that became famous with "The Sixth Sense", a good movie that uses the twist of "Haunted" (1995) in a great screenplay. "The Happening" has an intriguing beginning à la "Night of Living Dead", i.e., something is happening to the population of the East Coast of the USA forcing them to kill themselves, and the media is only speculating what might have happened. Therefore, the suicides in this movie are very similar to the zombies in George A. Romero's classic the menace does exist but nobody knows why. The development is reasonable, in spite of the absolute lack of chemistry between the miscast Mark Wahlberg and the gorgeous Zooey Deschanel. However the conclusion is simply awful and of course disappointing. As mentioned in the title of the review below, "Shyamalan needs to stop!" or at least to rethink his career. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Fim dos Tempos" ("End of the Time")