2006 · drama · fantasy · mystery
Lady in the Water
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan1h 50m2006
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
Our read: Lady in the Water (2006) reads as a warm, measured, surreal drama · fantasy · mystery entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / fantasy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
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