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Title: The Happening (2008)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Mark Wahlberg | ... | Elliot Moore | |
| Zooey Deschanel | ... | Alma Moore | |
| John Leguizamo | ... | Julian | |
| Ashlyn Sanchez | ... | Jess | |
| Betty Buckley | ... | Mrs. Jones | |
| Spencer Breslin | ... | Josh | |
| Robert Bailey Jr. | ... | Jared | |
| Frank Collison | ... | Nursery Owner | |
| Jeremy Strong | ... | Private Auster | |
| Alan Ruck | ... | Principal | |
| Victoria Clark | ... | Nursery Owner's Wife | |
| M. Night Shyamalan | ... | Joey (voice) | |
| Alison Folland | ... | Woman Reading on Bench with Hair Pin | |
| Kristen Connolly | ... | Woman Reading on Bench | |
| Cornell Womack | ... | Construction Foreman | |
Elliot Moore is a high school science teacher who quizzes his class one day about an article in the New York Times. It's about the sudden, mysterious disappearance of bees. Yet again Nature is doing something inexplicable, and whatever science has to say about it will be, in the end, only a theory. Scientists will bring out more theories, but no explanations, when a more urgent dilemma hits the planet. It begins in Central Park. Suddenly and inexplicably, the behavior of everyone in the park changes in a most bizarre and horrible way. Soon, the strange behavior spreads throughout the city and beyond. Elliot, his wife, Alma, and Jess, the young daughter of a friend, will only have theories to guide them where to run and where to hide. But theories may not be enough. Written by J. Spurlin
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What can I say. This movie sucked. Not even Mark Wahlberg, whom I rate as a great actor, could save this turkey.
I don't intend to include any spoilers, unless you include the fact that nothing of any note goes on in this picture. Equally the script seems to be written from the perspective of a naive 10 year old for a U-rated audience. The details concerning the relationship friction between the central characters seem so childlike as to be pointless.
Zooey Deschanel, who I enjoyed in Failure to Launch, seems completely miscast or just terrible. Her principle role seems to be to appear as a giant doe-eyed girl stumbling from scene to scene as though awakening from a drug-induced coma.
Shyamalan made a great first movie and I also enjoyed Unbreakable. Other than that he's been sliding into an abyss of drivel and somebody needs to stop funding his crap so I can stop kidding myself into sitting through it with the idea that surely this time it'll be worth it.