One of my aunts sent me an email about a month ago, concerning this movie and it’s underlying “anti-Christian” message. Sound familiar? If you read the Harry Potter series and/or watched the movies, then you’ve probably heard about the furor they created with the Christian community.

This time is no different. I’m reminded of the time my parents forbade me to see a movie because they thought its nature was questionable. Their reaction piqued my curiosity to the point where I snuck over to a neighbor’s house to watch it, just so I could see what was so bad about it. In their quest to thwart the success of The Golden Compass, the Christian community might actually boost its sales.

In Lady in the Water, a story originally conceived by writer-director M. Night Shyamalan for his children, a modest building manager named Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) rescues a mysterious young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) from danger and discovers she is actually a narf, a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman, he works together with the tenants to protect his new fragile friend from the deadly creatures that reside in this fable and are determined to prevent her from returning home.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Producers: M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mercer

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Freddy Rodriguez, Sarita Choudhury, Jared Harris, Bill Irwin

Release Date: July 21, 2006

This film has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for some frightening sequences.

PAUL GIAMATTI as Cleveland Heep and BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD as Story star in Warner Bros. Pictures’ sci-fi fantasy suspense thriller “Lady In The Water.”

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