• Genre: Drama, SciFi/Fantasy
  • Release Date: 06/13/2008
  • Running Time: 91 mins
  • Director: M. Night Shyamalan
  • Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, Robert Bailey Jr., Spencer Breslin, Betty Buckley, Lyman Chen, Rich Chew, Victoria Clark, Frank Collison, Stéphane Debac
  • Producer: Barry Mendel, Sam Mercer, M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
  • Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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Box Office

  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Tropic Thunder, 16.3 million, 65.8 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. The House Bunny, 14.5 million, 14.5 million
  5. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  6. Death Race, 12.6 million, 12.6 million
  7. The Dark Knight, 10.5 million, 489.4 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 5.7 million, 25.0 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. Pineapple Express, 5.5 million, 73.8 million
  13. Mirrors, 5.0 million, 20.2 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Mamma Mia!, 4.3 million, 124.5 million
  17. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 4.2 million, 93.9 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. The Longshots, 4.1 million, 4.1 million
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The Happening

What a bunch of nonsense—effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless. This is what happens when M. Night Shyamalan tries to play both John Carpenter (bloody) and Stanley Kubrick (cold-blooded) while writing and directing what the literalist will either dismiss or embrace as the horror-film extension of An Inconvenient Truth, depending upon who the literalist thinks is responsible for, ya know, killing the planet. No spoilers here, because there’s nothing to give away—not even the alleged cause of the toxin that causes folks in the Northeast to go loopy before killing themselves with whatever’s handy (a cop’s gun, a shard of glass, a sidewalk 40 stories down … a rotor tiller, ick). One minute folks are enjoying themselves in Central Park, the next they’re stabbing and shooting themselves for the following, oh, 90 minutes, give or take. (The film’s first 10 minutes are, down to the last second, unrelentingly horrific.) Mark Wahlberg, as a Philly science teacher obsessed with the sudden decline in the bee population, and Zooey Deschanel, as his disinterested missus, plod through the Pennsylvania countryside in search of a safe haven, only they can’t find one; the toxin’s everywhere. But if nothing else, a couple experiencing a few hiccups—she’s contemplating an affair with the voice of Shyamalan, making one of his more clever cameos—finds it easier to talk shit out when death is imminent. Which is a decent point, even if you have to avoid the piles of corpses on your way to therapy. — Robert Wilonsky

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