Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
Cleveland Heep, a stuttering apartment superintendent, encounters a girl named Story swimming in the complex's pool. He soon learns that she comes from the Blue World, and has a message for mankind. Will he be able to help her complete her mission? Written by
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According to the book "The Man Who Heard Voices," or "How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale," one of the reasons why Shyamalan decided to part with Disney was because Disney's president of development, Nina Jacobson, took her son to a party instead of staying home to read the script for Lady in the Water (2006). Shyamalan had it personally couriered to her, and to add insult to injury, she did not like it anyway. Shyamalan went off in a huff, and the "creative differences" he purportedly had with Disney was that he simply felt there was nothing creative about Disney anymore. He took the script to Warner Bros. instead, but without the usual marketing campaign that Disney promoted his other films with, and Lady in the Water (2006) was a box-office flop. See more »
Goofs
Before Cleveland Heep dives into the pool after Story, he takes his glasses off. After Story saves him, his glasses appear and disappear during shots, especially during the sequence where he is talking to the tenants. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Cleveland Heep:
[narrating]
Once, man and those in the water were linked. They inspired us. They spoke of the future. Man listened and it became real. But man does not listen very well. Man's need to own everything led him deeper into land. The magic world of the ones that live in the ocean, and the world of men, separated. Through the centuries their world, and all the inhabitants of it stopped trying. The world of man become more violent. War upon war played out, as there were no guides to listen...
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Crazy Credits
After the movie has ended, and all of the credits have scrolled, there appears the following dedication from M. Night Shyamalan: "To my daughters, I'll tell you this story one more time. But then go to bed." See more »
Flowers
Written by Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda
Performed by Cibo Matto
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.
By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing See more »
Utterly incoherent, pretentious codswallop that would make Buneul's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie an exercise in realism in comparison. Why this deranged man (M Night Shamalama) didn't follow his family's advice and become a doctor would be a far better topic of tragic discussion than spending another nano-second trying to analyze why he has so much contempt for his audience. What is evident to me is the fact that the inflated audience scores on IMDb and metacritic for this waste of celluloid could only be the result of M Night sitting in front of his lap top, frothing from the mouth, while repeatedly registering under different names to give his own movie one score of 10 after another. Have you noticed how most of the people who gave the movie 10 happen to ONLY have reviewed one movie...this one?!
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Utterly incoherent, pretentious codswallop that would make Buneul's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie an exercise in realism in comparison. Why this deranged man (M Night Shamalama) didn't follow his family's advice and become a doctor would be a far better topic of tragic discussion than spending another nano-second trying to analyze why he has so much contempt for his audience. What is evident to me is the fact that the inflated audience scores on IMDb and metacritic for this waste of celluloid could only be the result of M Night sitting in front of his lap top, frothing from the mouth, while repeatedly registering under different names to give his own movie one score of 10 after another. Have you noticed how most of the people who gave the movie 10 happen to ONLY have reviewed one movie...this one?!