The Happening (2008)

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• Mark Wahlberg as Elliot Moore
• Zooey Deschanel as Alma Moore
• John Leguizamo as Julian
• Spencer Breslin
• Ashlyn Sanchez
• Betty Buckley
• Robert Bailey Jr.
• M. Night Shyamalan
• Alan Ruck

Movie Story

From director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense," "Signs") comes 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.

It begins with no clear warning. It seems to come out of nowhere. In a matter of minutes, episodes of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and boggle the mind in their shocking destructiveness, erupt in major American cities. What is causing this sudden, total breakdown of human behavior? Is it some kind of new terrorist attack, an experiment gone wrong, a diabolical toxic weapon, an out-of-control virus? Is it being transmitted by air, by water... how?

For Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Wahlberg) what matters most is finding a way to escape the mysterious and deadly phenomenon. Though he and his wife Alma (Deschanel) are in the midst of a marital crisis, they hit the road, first by train, then by car, with Elliot's math teacher friend Julian (Leguizamo) and his 8 year-old daughter Jess ( Sanchez), heading for the Pennsylvania farmlands where they hope they'll be out of reach of the grisly, ever-growing attacks. Yet it soon becomes clear that no one - and nowhere - is safe. This terrifying, invisible killer cannot be outrun. It is only when Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what is lurking out there - and just what has unleashed this force that threatens the future of humanity -- that he discovers a sliver of hope that his fragile family might be able to escape what is happening.

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Reader's Reviews

it was da bomb

posted by matty on Jun 14, 2008

If you like movies that keep you confused the whole time you watch it, then end with no resolve or explanations, THIS MOVIE IS FOR YOU !!!

posted by JimFromNIHM on Jun 16, 2008

It's nice!very SCARY!

posted by vivi on Jun 28, 2008

what in the world?????and this is why the trees were probably acting the way they were

posted by antamedra on Jul 05, 2008

dude M.Night Shyamalan is the best director in the history of the world

posted by wig4lifebros on Jul 18, 2008

awesome!

posted by mini-fig on Jul 27, 2008

I still love this movie. It would be my favourite HORROR film. It's even BETTER the second time around.

posted by R on Jan 08, 2009

I don't see why everyone hates this movie? It was really good, it had all the variations, it was different. Maybe that's it? Can't handle some "difference". Well I enjoyed it HEAPS

posted by Todd on Jan 08, 2009

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posted by Hslxdlxz on Jul 13, 2009

rubbish acting and poor story, was frowning the whole way through

posted by kelsi on Jul 22, 2009