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Lady in the Water Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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Lady in the Water

Release Date: Friday, July 21, 2006

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard Paul Giamatti Freddy Rodriguez Jeffrey Wright Bob Balaban

PG-13 Drama N/A

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Plot

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Plot
In "Lady in the Water", a story originally conceived by 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.
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The film's director M. Night Shyamalan last directed Trap and Trap. The film's writer M. Night Shyamalan last wrote Trap and Trap.

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M. Night Shyamalan

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Parent Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for some frightening sequences
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Tagline
A bedtime story...
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Language
English

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Lady in the Water was released in on Friday, July 21, 2006. There were 3 other movies released on the same date, including Fragile, Monster House and Clerks II.

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