Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HAPPENING, THE (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0024543532897
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbedSpanishDubbed
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: FOXD2253289D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
A paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 10/07/2008 Starring: Mark Wahlberg John Leguizamo Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R

Amazon.com:
You'd expect the end of the world to be no day in the park, but in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, a day in the park is where the end begins. One otherwise peaceful summer morning, New Yorkers strolling in Central Park come to a halt in unison, then begin killing themselves by any means at hand. At a high-rise construction site a few blocks over, it's raining bodies as workers step off girders into space. And all the while, the city is so quiet you can hear the gentle breeze in the trees. That breeze carries a neurotoxin, and what or who put it there (terrorists?) is a question raised periodically as the film unfolds. But the question that really matters is how and whether anybody in the Middle Atlantic states is going to stay alive. The Happening is Shyamalan's best film since The Sixth Sense, partly because he avoids the kind of egregious misjudgment that derailed The Village and Lady in the Water, but mostly because the whole thing has been structured and imagined to keep faith with the point of view of regular, unheroic folks confronted with a mammoth crisis. Focal characters are a Philadelphia high-school science teacher (Mark Wahlberg, excellent), his wife (Zooey Deschanel) and math-teacher colleague (John Leguizamo), and the latter's little girl (Ashlyn Sanchez). Instinct says get out of the cities and move west; most of the film takes place in the delicately picturesque Pennsylvania countryside, with menace hovering somewhere in the haze. There are no special effects (apart from a wind machine and some breakaway glass), but the movie manages to be deeply unsettling in the matter-of-factness of its storytelling. Especially effective is its feel for what we might call the surrealism of banality. One warning sign that someone has been infected by the neurotoxin is irrational or erratic speech and behavior, yet Shyamalan has a genius for dialogue that sounds normal and everyday as it's spoken, yet flies apart grenade-like a second later as its logic (or illogic) sinks in. Then there's Deschanel's eye-rolling dodginess about the messages some guy has been leaving on her cellphone. Or the fellow (Frank Collis) who addresses his greenhouse plants as though they were his children--has a stray toxic zephyr wafted his way, or is this just his idea of normal? --Richard T. Jameson




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Rating: - Check the $1 bin at your local wal-mart for this one...
I want to say upfront, I'm not an M. Night Shyamalan basher. The Sixth Sense was great, Unbreakable was pretty cool too, and I even thought the Village was OK. But there is no excuse for this poorly executed disaster of a film. The film's concept itself, that plant life weary of humans polluting the planet cause us to spontaneously commit suicide, isn't such a bad one. But the way the story is told, with zero nuance, subtlety, or credibility, completely derails the plot.
Here are the main ... Read More

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Rating: - Held my interest up to a point.
I would not consider myself a M. Night Shyamalan fan, however I did enjoy 'The Sixth Sense' and to a lesser degree 'Signs' and consider 'Unbreakable' to be his best so far. On first viewing 'The Village' I was lead to believe that I enjoyed it even though the twist was pretty obvious for me, but on second viewing the plot holes stick out a mile and I now have no time for it and feel somewhat ashamed of myself for being sucked in on the the first viewing! I also hold my hands up and confess to enjoying ... Read More

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Rating: - Surely as mis-titled a movie as there has been in a while...
It's a B-movie. No other word to describe it. And as a non-intellectual throw-away B-movie, it's not that bad. However it comes laden with expectation - it's a Shymalayan movie - so what's the hook, and what's the twist!
Well, the hook is that mysterious deaths start occurring in the NE of the United States. Confusion reigns, as the news alternates between fear this is a terrorist attack, to the gradual realization this is.. well, just in case you haven't seen it yet I won't spoil the only `surprise' ... Read More

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Rating: - Not As Terrible As Some Would Have You Believe
I go to see M. Knight Shyamalan movies with a grain of salt: I expect that I won't like his movies, and am usually slightly disappointed. The Happening was a psychological thriller utilizing an older, more 'Hitchcock' variable in horror and monsters. The true monsters here were average people, made to become their worst by pollen spawned from righteous trees, plants and grasses. On the breezes of warm summer days, the pollen flowed throughout the world, claiming victims and working to rid the world of an over ... Read More

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Rating: - Horror-rible!!!!
After reading the favorable comments of Richard T. Jameson, the Amazon editor above, I wondered if he had seen the same awful movie I had. THE HAPPENING is the worst of a long list of terrible films by M. Night Shyamalan. I honestly don't understand why he keeps getting money to do garbage. Then I went to a website called to see what the box office numbers looked like for the film. They were impressive. THE HAPPENING's budget was $60,000,000 and its worldwide box office receipts totaled $163,000,000. ... Read More

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