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Paul's Mystery "Lady"

Posted Jul 15th 2006 10:32AM by TMZ Staff

Giamatti follows up his Oscar-nominated performance in "Cinderella Man" with the eerie thriller "Lady in the Water." The M. Night Shyamalan film opens next weekend and definitely echoes the director's other spine-chilling movies, "The Sixth Sense" and "The Village."

Giamatti plays Cleveland Heep, a janitor of an apartment complex, "I'm sort of hiding in this place," he says of his part, "I've taken on this mindless job, sort of shut myself off and this is what I do and become a hermit in this little house that I live in on the premises."

Of course, being a Shyamalan film, there are sure to be a few twists and turns and this movie is no different. When Heep finds a mysterious woman, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, in the pool outside his home, the creep factor starts to rise. "She at first seems like this strange young girl but something seems odd about her, but fairly quickly I start to figure out she's not quite human."

"Lady in the Water" opens July 21 in theaters.

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1. Did you know Giamatti was in the same class with Anderson Cooper at Yale?

Posted at 12:24PM on Jul 15th 2006 by woo woo

2. COME ON TMZ. This is hardly interesting. Is someone on auto-pilot over there?

We have a WAR going on in the Middle East. They are BLOWING each other up with Missiles and bombs A snip it on that on that would have been more interesting then this. I think some opinions on ISRAEL and what's going on over there would be something visitors might like to comment on. NOW THERE'S A SUBJECT WORTH EXPLORING

Posted at 3:27PM on Jul 15th 2006 by just curious

3. I Love every Movie that M. Night Shyamalan makes, He is the best filmaker ther is and will not go Hollywirld, that is why he stays true to his writing and directing, I cannot wait until Friday, compared to some of these horrible senseless Movies that are making million and million of dollars and you leave the movie and say to yourself that sucked. M. NIGHT I LOVE YOU AND YOUR MOVIES AND F**K DISNEY, YOU ROCK

Posted at 1:18PM on Jul 16th 2006 by pat

4. Anyone who felt burned by THE VILLAGE (I know I went in with moderate expecations and felt like I was fooled by the marketing) should stay away from the lady in the water. This movie is supposed to be a bedtime fable and all of a sudden it's being marketed as a horror film? I was already fooled into paying money for the village, I urge all of you to stay away.

Posted at 3:43PM on Jul 16th 2006 by Larry

5. Wow!..and did you know that aqau means your green card got wet rahter than 'colored'???

Posted at 7:53PM on Jul 16th 2006 by doug

6. #4 I agree with you wholeheartedly. I LOVE M. Night's movies, I think he's Brilliant and I think it's sad that people don't "get him". I loved ALL of his movies. I was not fooled by The Village at all, I was entertained. I do agree that the marketing of his movies, something he's disagreed with for years now, is off the mark. The Village was never suppose to be a horror movie. Every movie M Night has done is suppose to make you stop and think, and they do. That's what is so brillant about him. I can not wait until next weekend to go see it. I always support his movies, and always will.
And while it's true that this movie began as a bedtime story he made up for his daughters, he adapted it for the general audience... to make us think and remember what it was like to be a child, unjaded by the adult world.

Posted at 8:16PM on Jul 16th 2006 by Ro

7. M. Night Shyamalan I Love your writing and directing and I am so proud of all of your Movies, You are the second coming of my all time favorite "Alfred Hitchcock", Thank God that I can finally go back to the Movies and see a great Movie again, You are the best, Good luck on Friday and again great casting! I love Ryce. I am so proud of you for doing it your way and not caving in to The Big Honchos at Disney. Philadelphia is so proud of you.

Posted at 9:30PM on Jul 16th 2006 by Patty

8. I can't believe people are excited about this movie, and on top of it saying negative things about Pirates. Although Pirates may not be the work of art M. Night ATTEMPTS to create it is a very entertaining movie and a great follow up to the first. That said, I think after Lady in the Water is released, those who see it will be fooled twice. After this movie, his fanbase will be a fraction of what it formerly was, mainly because of they way these movies are advertised and the quailty that they possess. This is not a horror film. It also doesn't have as much to it as his previous movies such as sixth sense and signs. M Night has really lost his touch, and he should spare us from seeing commercial upon commercial for his never-live-up-to-the-expectations recent movies.

Posted at 11:59AM on Jul 17th 2006 by J

9. Saw it. Had potential. Neve quite realized its potential. Had a good idea behind it but there was too much revealed in just the dialogue. There was no suspense. The writing was poorly done as well. The acting was well done, but the story seemed more of a college semester project. Narf? That was the best he could come up with? Very clunky writing. MNS writing himself in as a savior of the world was pretty cheesy. At the end of the movie, the audience sat waiting a moment, waiting for the movie to start, in a sense. Disappointment was almost tangible.

Posted at 3:42PM on Jul 24th 2006 by M.