“I see dead people.” Does ten year old Cole (Haley Joel Osment, a year before Spielberg cast him in AI) have the sixth sense, as he claims — or is this sensitive, unusual child responding to stress, as his mother (Toni Collette) would like to believe? Child psychologist Dr Crowe (Bruce Willis) thinks he can help, but becomes unsettled by his patient’s creepily persuasive testimony…
Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan scored a big hit with this, his third feature, the one that put him on course to become one of the most successful filmmakers of the next decade. It’s a genuinely disturbing ghost story, but it’s also a tricksy film that still treats its characters (and by extension, the audience) with respect.
A film that left an indelible footprint on the popular culture, a film that remains one of my favorite titles of the 1990s in any genre.
Richard Roeper
A poignant study of the searing pain caused by loss, this all-too-human horror film provokes tears as well as fears.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
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M. Night Shyamalan
Haley Joel Osment, Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
USA
1999
English
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Credits
Producer
Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel
Screenwriter
M. Night Shyamalan
Cinematography
Tak Fujimoto
Editor
Andrew Mondshein
Original Music
James Newton Howard
Production Design
Larry Fulton
90s, Baby!
Ten years. 11 weeks. 90 films from the 1990s. This summer, 90’s Baby! takes a deep dive into a defining decade of cinema.