M. Night Shyamalan's seventh feature flouts moviemaking conventions with childish glee, telling rather than showing, subordinating narrative to weird, pointless angles and compositions, and showcasing the very cliches inveighed against by the tale's villain, snotty critic Mr. Farber. All of which would be fine if the magic justified the malarkey: But it doesn't.
Stuttering sad-sack Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) was once a doctor, but tragedy reduced him to managing The Cove, a shabby Philadelphia apartment complex inhabited by a studiously artificial cross-section of society. There's trendy college student/goodtime girl Cindy Cheung (Young-Soon Choi) who lives...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
n/a