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The Happening
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister?
2008 · Directed by M. Night Shyamalan · 90 min · Thriller · Science Fiction · 10 frames
Tagline
We've sensed it. We've seen the signs. Now...it's happening.
Crew
- Screenplay: M. Night Shyamalan
- Cinematography: Tak Fujimoto
- Edited by: Conrad Buff IV
- Music: James Newton Howard
- Production design: Jeannine Oppewall
- Produced by: M. Night Shyamalan, Barry Mendel, Sam Mercer, Deven Khote
Cast
- Mark Wahlberg as Elliot Moore
- Zooey Deschanel as Alma Moore
- John Leguizamo as Julian
- Ashlyn Sanchez as Jess
- Betty Buckley as Mrs. Jones
- Spencer Breslin as Josh
- Robert Bailey Jr. as Jared
- Frank Collison as Nursery Owner
- Jeremy Strong as Private Auster
- Alan Ruck as Principal
Production
- Country: United States of America, India
- Language: English, French
- Studios: 20th Century Fox, UTV Motion Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Blinding Edge Pictures
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $163,403,799
- Themes: suicide, husband wife relationship, tree, natural disaster, crisis, park, nature, killer plant, strange behavior, virus
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