The Lady in the Water
The Lady in the Water is an interesting movie. Based upon a fairy tale story that M. Night Shyamalan created to tell his children, it mixes a variety of visuals and story lines to weave a tale that could be quite frightening for little children which explains the PG13 rating.
The story starts off with a depressed apartment building superintendent who has a speech impediment. Someone has been swimming in the pool after hours against the rules. It turns out that the swimmer is a sea-nymph who is trying to get home.
In ancient times, the water people helped man but man forgot them. The water people have been sending nymphs out to try and contact man again. Narfs, wolf-like creatures, hunt them down and kill them even though it is against the rules.
The superintendent, played by Paul Giamatti, brings together a group of the apartment dwellers to help the sea-nymph, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, go home all the while uncovering the dark past that befell his family.
There are plot holes in the story line such that certain pieces of the story are disjointed. Other than the weak points of the storyline and the herky-jerky flow in parts of the movie, I did thoroughly enjoy it. I just wish that mister Shyamalan had spent a bit more time in cleaning up the script either before or during shooting.
My Rating [3 out of 5]
Rated PG13 for some frightening sequences
Released 2006
Released to DVD 2006
Director M. Night Shyamalan (Wikipedia)
Main character Actors Bryce Dallas Howard (Wikipedia), Paul Giamatti (Wikipedia)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452637/
Buy on Amazon.com: Lady in the Water (Widescreen Edition)
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