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Lady in the Water
2006
· Movie
· 110 min
F
MEANRANK
49/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5366
- IMDb #5233
- Google retired #3026
- Rotten Tomatoes #4431
- Metacritic #4818
- Letterboxd #5174
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4911
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4063
- Metacritic Critics #4470
- Metacritic Audience #4861
- Criticker #3564
- Douban #2598
- Kinopoisk #5335
- AlloCiné #4619
- Trakt #4934
Every rating
25–76
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 25, highest is Google on 76. Critics average 30, everyone else 53.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
Details
- Director
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Writer
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Released
- 19 July 2006
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $70.0M
- Box office
- $72.8M
- Awards
- 9 wins, 10 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 19 →9 wins from 19 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Screenplay | M. Night Shyamalan | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Picture | Sam Mercer | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Picture | M. Night Shyamalan | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Director | M. Night Shyamalan | Winner |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Supporting Actor | M. Night Shyamalan | Winner |
| IFMCA Awards 2006 | Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film | James Newton Howard | Winner |
| IFMCA Awards 2006 | Film Music Composition of the Year | James Newton Howard ("The Great Eatlon") | Winner |
| IFMCA Awards 2006 | Film Score of the Year | James Newton Howard | Winner |
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Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
9 nominations, 4 won
| Least Scary Horror Movie | Sam Mercer | Winner |
| Least Scary Horror Movie | M. Night Shyamalan | Winner |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent (Female) | Cindy Cheung | Winner |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Cindy Cheung | Winner |
| Worst Director | M. Night Shyamalan | Nominee |
| Worst Ensemble | The entire cast | Nominee |
| Worst Picture | Sam Mercer | Nominee |
| Worst Picture | M. Night Shyamalan | Nominee |
| Worst Screenplay | M. Night Shyamalan | Nominee |
IFMCA Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film | James Newton Howard | Winner |
| Film Music Composition of the Year | James Newton Howard ("The Great Eatlon") | Winner |
| Film Score of the Year | James Newton Howard | Winner |
Golden Raspberry Awards
5 nominations, 2 won
| Worst Director | M. Night Shyamalan | Winner |
| Worst Supporting Actor | M. Night Shyamalan | Winner |
| Worst Picture | Sam Mercer | Nominee |
| Worst Picture | M. Night Shyamalan | Nominee |
| Worst Screenplay | M. Night Shyamalan | Nominee |
Teen Choice Awards
1 nomination
| Choice Summer Movie – Drama/Action-Adventure | Nominee |
Young Artist Awards
1 nomination
| Best Young Actor – Ten or Under | Noah Gray-Cabey | Nominee |