The Happening (2008)

20th Century Fox' "The Happening"
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Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rating: R
Release Date: Jun 13, 2008
Running Time: 89 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue French and English
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
"The Happening" is a lightning-paced, heart-pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind, but the most basic human instinct of them all--survival.
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Elliot Moore
Alma Moore
Mrs. Jones
Nursery Owner’s Wife
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Private Auster
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Although it has some effective moments and a clever premise, M. Night Shyamalan's latest thriller is short on thrills. Not a whole lot HAPPENS in The Happening.

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Improving on his last two duds, The Village and the dreadful aquatic nymph tale Lady In The Water, writer/producer/director M. Night Shyamalan gets back to the kind of eerie, paranoid thriller he so successfully mined in early efforts like The Sixth Sense and Signs. The results this time are mixed in this story of a mysterious… Continued

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rating  PETER TRAVERS - June 13, 2008
Film critics have been asked to say as little as possible about M. Night Shyamalan’s new scare film about the perils of messing with Mother Nature. Fair enough. But I will say this: It’s not happening.