Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 06/13/08 Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated R for violent and disturbing images. Running Time 1hour 31 minutes Genre Suspense Director M. Night Shyamalan Writer M. Night Shyamalan Cast Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez. Studio 20 Century Fox |
THE HAPPENING (2008)
SYNOPSIS
From director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth
Sense, Signs) comes a lightning-paced, heart-
pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the
run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event
that threatens not only humankind . . . but the most
basic human instinct of them all: survival.
It begins with no clear warning. It seems to come
out of nowhere. In a matter of minutes, episodes
of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and
boggle the mind in their shocking destructiveness,
erupt in major American cities. What is causing
this sudden, total breakdown of human behavior?
Is it some kind of new terrorist attack, an
experiment gone wrong, a diabolical toxic
weapon, an out-of-control virus? Is it being
transmitted by air, by water . . . how?
For Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot
Moore (Academy Award® nominee MARK
WAHLBERG) what matters most is finding a way to
escape the mysterious and deadly phenomenon.
Though he and his wife Alma (ZOOEY DESCHANEL)
are in the midst of a marital crisis, they hit the
road, first by train, then by car, with Elliot’s math
From director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth
Sense, Signs) comes a lightning-paced, heart-
pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the
run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event
that threatens not only humankind . . . but the most
basic human instinct of them all: survival.
It begins with no clear warning. It seems to come
out of nowhere. In a matter of minutes, episodes
of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and
boggle the mind in their shocking destructiveness,
erupt in major American cities. What is causing
this sudden, total breakdown of human behavior?
Is it some kind of new terrorist attack, an
experiment gone wrong, a diabolical toxic
weapon, an out-of-control virus? Is it being
transmitted by air, by water . . . how?
For Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot
Moore (Academy Award® nominee MARK
WAHLBERG) what matters most is finding a way to
escape the mysterious and deadly phenomenon.
Though he and his wife Alma (ZOOEY DESCHANEL)
are in the midst of a marital crisis, they hit the
road, first by train, then by car, with Elliot’s math
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jteacher friend Julian (Emmy® Award winner JOHN LEGUIZAMO) and his 8 year-old daughter Jess
(ASHLYN SANCHEZ), heading for the Pennsylvania farmlands where they hope they’ll be out of reach of
the grisly, ever-growing attacks. Yet it soon becomes clear that no one – and nowhere – is safe. This
terrifying, invisible killer cannot be outrun. It is only when Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what
is lurking out there – and just what has unleashed this force that threatens the future of humanity -- that
he discovers a sliver of hope that his fragile family might be able to escape what is happening.
--© 20th Century Fox
(ASHLYN SANCHEZ), heading for the Pennsylvania farmlands where they hope they’ll be out of reach of
the grisly, ever-growing attacks. Yet it soon becomes clear that no one – and nowhere – is safe. This
terrifying, invisible killer cannot be outrun. It is only when Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what
is lurking out there – and just what has unleashed this force that threatens the future of humanity -- that
he discovers a sliver of hope that his fragile family might be able to escape what is happening.
--© 20th Century Fox
