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The Sixth Sense
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
1999 · Directed by M. Night Shyamalan · 107 min · Mystery · Thriller · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 29 frames
Tagline
Not every gift is a blessing.
Plot
In Philadelphia, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe is at home with his wife Anna. Suddenly, Vincent Grey, a former patient he had treated years ago, breaks into their house. He accuses Malcolm of failing him before shooting him and then killing himself.
The next fall, Malcolm has begun working with Cole Sear, a nine-year-old boy who reminds him of Vincent. He feels he must help him in order to rectify his own failure to help Vincent and to reconcile with Anna, who has become cold and distant towards him since the shooting. Lynn Sear, Cole's mother, worries about her son—especially after seeing mysterious signs of physical harm.
At a birthday party, when bullies see that Cole is scared of a cupboard, they lock him in it, causing him to scream in terror about someone seemingly inside with him. Once released, he faints and appears to have been physically assaulted, which his mother attributes to the bullies. Following this, Cole confides to Malcolm that he sees dead people.
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Crew
- Written by: M. Night Shyamalan
- Cinematography: Tak Fujimoto
- Edited by: Andrew Mondshein
- Music: James Newton Howard
- Production design: Larry Fulton
- Produced by: Barry Mendel, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy
Cast
- Bruce Willis as Malcolm Crowe
- Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear
- Toni Collette as Lynn Sear
- Olivia Williams as Anna Crowe
- Trevor Morgan as Tommy Tammisimo
- Donnie Wahlberg as Vincent Gray
- Peter Anthony Tambakis as Darren
- Jeffrey Zubernis as Bobby
- Bruce Norris as Stanley Cunningham
- Glenn Fitzgerald as Sean
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Latin, Spanish
- Studios: Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Hollywood Pictures, Barry Mendel Productions
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Box office: $672,800,000
- Themes: dying and death, child abuse, philadelphia, pennsylvania, sense of guilt, afterlife, marriage crisis, loss of loved one, confidence, psychology, paranormal phenomena
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