M. Nightly Retrospective: 'The Sixth Sense'
Day One of a six day look back at M. Night Shyamalan's last five films and then some...
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- BOX OFFICE: $293,506,292 domestically, $672,806,292 worldwide and #27 all-time
- PRODUCTION BUDGET: $40 million
- Nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay and three more Academy Awards
- Opened on M. Night Shyamalan's birthday
- Following The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan was said to be in talks with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to help in writing the fourth Indiana Jones film. (source)
- Bruce Willis earned about $14 million for his part in the film (source), co-star Haley Joel Osment was paid $150,000 (source). Willis's private jet tab alone was $450,000.
- M. Night Shyamalan has a cameo in the film as a doctor who examines Cole after the incident at the birthday party.
"The Sixth Sense" has a kind of calm, sneaky self-confidence that allows it to take us down a strange path, intriguingly. ~ Roger Ebert, "Chicago Sun-Times"
ONE BAD:
Too plodding to be a thriller, too one-dimensional to be psychological, and not nearly frightening enough to be chilling, this film sets up a problem, and then never bothers to solve it. ~ Jeff Gray, "Globe and Mail"
The Sixth Sense also offers up the first of many fantastic scores provided by James Newton Howard for a Shyamalan film. Howard has scored all of Night's major studio efforts and while this one isn't the best of the bunch it certainly adds a lot of welcome atmosphere to the project.
As for The Sixth Sense, from a visual perspective it is not Shyamalan's best, but it certainly is a nice starting point.
Photo: Touchstone Home Entertainment
Photo: Touchstone Home Entertainment
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